Werckmeister's Beauty X Whirlwind Tour
The goal: tetraploid 3/4-breds with near-aril-like flowers on highly gardenable plants. The pod parent, Werckmeister's Beauty, is an exceptionally easy-to-grow aril of known species ancestry. From Bronze Beauty X (Teucros x I. susiana) - which charts back to species with its greatgrandparents: two I. stolonifera, two I. hoogiana, two I. susiana, one I. korolkowii, and one I. iberica. Whirlwind Tour is a halfbred with good size and substance, wide form, and appears to carry an inhibitor of the deep purple pigments that are so prevalent among the tetraploid 3/4-breds. This pair gave me the widest variety of offspring of all the crosses I've made of this type.
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Werckmeister's Beauty |
Whirlwind Tour |
On maiden bloom, thirty-two siblings were selected for further evaluation. These eight are representative.
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90-19-2 |
90-19-4 |
90-19-9 |
90-19-14 |
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90-19-15 |
90-19-18 |
90-19-19 |
90-19-20 |
