Warrior Chief (McAllister, 1990)

This pansy-purple self with black signal and bushy yellow-orange beard closely resembles its aril parent but has a larger flower and is much easier to grow.  It's an unbalanced tetraploid from Persian Pansy X Heart Stealer.  Offspring of Persian Pansy are typically shades of purple, but rarely this good. 

No evidence of fertility in limited tests with halfbreds. It has produced a few viable seeds when crossed with the tetraploid arils, which I cultured, but none of the resultant seedlings survived to bloom size. 

This one really wanted to be called "Black Hawk", but that name was already taken. After pondering a lot of potential variations – including his Sauk name, Makataimeshekiakiak – and "War Chief", which was also taken, I came up with this variation.

For show aficionados, its ASI code is OGB+.

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