Re: HYB: reselect & foliage inheritance
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: reselect & foliage inheritance
- From: P* O*
- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 22:57:51 -0700
Linda,
If you do decide to cross it with something to breed away from the ugly foliage, may I suggest using Free Space? This iris has the best straight upright foliage I have seen on an iris. It holds up well in our Phoenix heat too...where other varieties brown tip badly or lop over. FS stayed mostly green.
Patrick Orr
Zone 9
Phoenix, AZ
USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Mann
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:43 AM
To: iris-talk
Subject: [iris-talk] HYB: reselect & foliage inheritance
Whoopee do - two of the IMMORTALITY X CELEBRATION SONG seedlings are
going to rebloom. Probably too late for my garden, but I will try to
protect them to see what they look like.
One of them has ugly/wierd foliage - it curves abruptly away from the
rhizome/fan, almost parallel to the ground, & tends to be a bit twisty.
The plant is a rampant grower (as are most of its siblings). Two
questions:
1) is this growth habit strictly genetic or might it also be cultural?
2) assuming it's hereditary and the bloom stalk & flowers are worth
something, is it worth trying to breed away from the bizarre foliage?
make that 3 questions: How hard will it be to get back to more normal
foliage?
make that 4....Do any of the ancestral species involved in development
of modern TBs have this kind of foliage as part of their normal growth?
Linda Mann east Tennessee zone 7/8 USA
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