Ian Dyson died suddenly on the morning of the 16th June after planting some of the last of his daffodils for this season. He had been troubled recently with heart problems and was seeing his cardiologist. He had a triple…
Day: June 16, 2014
Fertility of Classic Gold, Apollo Gold, and Little Laine
Clay Higgins wrote on June 14 that he got seed from the open pollination of Classic Gold. This is a cross of N. bulbocodium conspicuus, which should be hexaploid, and N. rupicola which is diploid. Such a combination normally is unfertile. But some of these XXXY-…