Re: Unusual color expression patterns
From: "Harold Peters" <harold@directcon.net>
Mike Sutton has posted to his site some TBs that have done the same type of
things. I think he is watching to see if the behavior is stable over the
course of several years.
Harold Peters
Beautiful View Iris Garden,
El Dorado Hills, CA USDA zone 9
harold@directcon.net http://www.beautiful-view-iris.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Hollingworth" <Cyberiris@netscape.net>
To: <sibrob@onelist.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 9:17 AM
Subject: [sibrob] Unusual color expression patterns
> From: Robert Hollingworth <Cyberiris@netscape.net>
>
> I just got an e-mail and photo from Jean-Marc Boileau of a tetraploid
seedling
> that reliably has two blue falls and one red one. I have never seen this
> before except in a single flower among many normal ones where there has
> presumably been a mutation (or other accident)in color development. It
> reminded me of a parallel situation. In the last few years I have had two
> diploid seedlings (from quite different parents) in which the the left
half of
> each fall is blue and the right half is red. The "demarcation" line
between
> the two colors is quite sharp and each covers exactly half of the fall.
This
> is both interesting and decorative (to me at least) and I am lining one
out
> for further study. Has anyone else seen this? How about any other unusal
color
> patterns of this type? It's amazing what keeps showing up quite unplanned
if
> you grow enough seedlings. Better to be lucky than smartI guess.
> Bob Hollingworth - where the new seedlings a germinating fast indoors, old
man
> winter has found us at least, the snow is building up at about an inch
every
> day and it's time to get the snowplough out.
>
>
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