Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] HYB: Questions/Tidbits

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Often we see pod shape offered as a maternally transmitted trait as a generalization. I suspect this is not always true. I am at the moment viewing three pods set with three different pollens on Bandera Waltz. Two are quite similar. The third is different enough it would not be deemed from the same plant. Others offer enough variation to make such a generalization suspect. Broken Dreams or Happenstance (can't remember which at the moment and will have to look again) also exhibits pod variations on occasion here.

I would be interested from a curiosity standpoint in knowing of any iris varieties that may exhibit pod anomalies with different or the same pollen. I can never be sure if I dream such things or if such variation is a function of number of seeds in the pod, even perhaps insect bites.



Smiles,
Bill Burleson

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