[pbs] Unspotted red Tigridia pavonia
Jim McKenney
jimmckenney at jimmckenney.com
Sat Sep 8 14:40:53 EDT 2007
Ellen Hornig wrote "I don't know how often these unspotted forms come up."
Let's hope it's a lot more often, Ellen, that one is really beautiful.
I don't know how often they come up now, but in the past there was something
called the "Immaculata" strain of Tigridia pavonia which had flowers
characterized by a lack of spotting. Again, in the past, separate colors
were offered.
Somewhere among the accumulated ephemera here I have the catalog/folder of
an outfit which once grew Tigridia pavonia in the Pacific Northwest back in
the 1940s or so - maybe Wilson Brothers or something like that. As I recall,
they had fifteen or twenty different named strains or clones of Tigridia in
various color combinations.
Jim McKenney
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Rhodophiala is making me antsy: there is no sign of bloom here yet.
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