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most recent 12 DEC 12 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 12 DEC 12 by Jay-Jay
Kim, is Mutabilis used in this cross?
Oops, I just saw, that I asked You that already some photo's ago.
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Reply #1 of 5 posted 12 DEC 12 by Kim Rupert
I wish I could tell you for sure, Jay Jay. This seedling was raised in the old Newhall garden, back in the 1990s where the rats would take every plant tag they could get hold of. I would find the tags in their nests, so I've never known for sure what it was the result of. I have played with Mutabilis for over twenty years and this could well be one of its offspring.

Mel Hulse collected it for the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden where Janet Sclar of Amity Heritage Roses saw it and contacted me for permission to introduce it. I'd discarded the seedling as I hoped for more saturated color from it, whatever it was. She graciously sent me a plant of it, which continues growing in my current garden. I've found it to accept pretty much any pollen I put on it. There are many seeds under soil now between it and pollen from Banksiae Lutescens, Hugonis and my 1-72-1Hugonis seedling. We'll see what results.
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Reply #2 of 5 posted 12 DEC 12 by Jay-Jay
You are going somewhere with Your pollination(plan)s, but this-one is already "singularly" beautifull!
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Reply #3 of 5 posted 12 DEC 12 by Kim Rupert
Thank you! It has definitely grown on me! Typically, in milder climates, the yellow shifts to a rosy pink. In really intense sun and heat, it takes on more of the earth tone shift Mutabilis provides. You could be correct in your guess. What else is involved, heaven only knows!
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Reply #4 of 5 posted 12 DEC 12 by Jay-Jay
Sometimes accidental or open pollinations are the best!
That's how in the past a lot of applevarieties were found all over the world, that no modern apple can compete with.
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Reply #5 of 5 posted 12 DEC 12 by Kim Rupert
I believe you, particularly with fruit varieties where thousands of blooms are pollinated with many more thousands of seeds created.
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