[SpaceAgeRobin] RE: HYB: Arilbred SA's

Chuck, I don't remember where I picked up the info about unicellular hairs
in arils, but the reference was to the pure aril, not the hybrids.

I have never had access to a microscope, but do remember that in CGW's I
grew, the beards did resemble the Eupogons somewhat more than they did the
pure aril stock.

The pure arils I had were either Regelias (stolonifera and hoogiana) or
RC/OG type hybrids on the order of Teucros and the like.  I also had some of
the diploid White hybrids like Oyez, one that started with a P (I can't pull
the name up right now--something like Present?), plus the grand old Willam
Mohr.  I kept daubbing pollen on it for several years and never got a seed,
or perhaps got one that never germinated.

I couldn't keep White's Joppa Parrot through Idaho winters, and would
usually lose about a third of Capitola every year, but the survivors
increased so happily that my stock steadily increased.  In order to get
pollen, I had about a sixteen foot row of it for some years, reset annually.
Ib-mac didn't like my winters either, so it never grew enough to play with.
I raised a lot of Capitola babies and introduced one--and got the only award
I've ever had, an HM.

I also grew for several years the three-way triploid of
Eupogon-Regelia-Oncocyclus the name of which I can't pull up at the moment
either.   I vaguely have a notion it was a Kalifa something or other.  It
was one of C. G. White's as well

I've been having this problem more than usual this past week....age,
decrepitude or just plain sticky file drawer in my proper noun memory
storage.

I found your comment that the arilbreds did have multicellular hairs.  Do
they resemble the Eupogon ones?

The material I had I think was in *Garden Irises,* and had an illustration.
The Eupogon beard hair was a baseball-bat shaped affair, large end to the
top, the aril one a thin filament of straight form, arising from the basal
surface cell as an extension.  It had no diameter change through its length,
and  had short spikes all over its length in all directions.  The oncocyclus
beard pad is quite wide and diffuse.  I believe the regelias, which of
course had beards in the base of the standards as well as on the falls, had
a beard structure the resembled the Eupogons a bit more--not so diffuse, but
very different looking from Eupogon beards.

Just eyeball, no microscope, plus some published stuff.

Neil Mogensen  z 7  Reg 4  western NC mountains

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