Re: CULT?: Abnormal flowers
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- Subject: Re: CULT?: Abnormal flowers
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@digitalpla.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:32:58 -0600
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <cwalters@digitalpla.net>
Rodney Barton writes:
>
> >I was beginning to think this might be a genetic fault of particular
> >plants. I have had many blooms on YES with 4 - 6 falls and standards,
> >and one with 7 style arms. TRAMP (SDB) had many blooms with less than 3
> >falls. ....
> Let me back track a little. The studies I cited also found evidence for
a
> genetic component for variation in flower form. The above examples
> WOULD seem to be genetic. For me CAJUN COOKERY (LA) always has one
> or two blooms with 4 falls. It's usually the terminal flower. This is
most
> surely a genetic trait or fault depending on how you look at it.
In an article he wrote for the Spring, 1996 issue of ROOTS, Clarence Mahan
remarks in passing that W.R. Dykes noted that "Queen of May is a constant
offender in producing four-sided flowers". As Queen of May (Salter, before
1859) is in the ancestry of many modern bearded irises, perhaps she is the
(a) culprit in passing on a tendency towards multiple floral parts. Of
course, this would not account for the presence of a similar characteristic
in LA's.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
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