Category: Fertility

The fertility of species and named daffodils.

pinks – Myh Word 3

The pollen parent of  Gee  Pink  is  My  Word.     My  Word  –  1979  Mrs  Eve  Murray  Australia.   A very famous Australian pink,  certainly the best of its era  —  beautiful.   Used extensively for breeding  Down under.

A Ace

August Ace again.     Gives a number of cupped or coned flowers  that open well but don,t completely split the cup.   Still attractive, nice contrast in the two tones of yellow.   Quite a few pistils in often…

Yvonne

Hi Daffnetters,   Another historic for daffseek.   A very early flowering Aussie  2 Y  Y  — Yvonne  A consistently high flower rate, good openner from bud.  Cup can take on an orange hue with maturety, – deeper towards the…

another seedling

This seedling, too, is still looking good.  The breeding is ‘Quick Step’ op x ‘Fertile Crescent’.   The World Tour was wonderful.  Many thanks to all who worked so hard to make it so.  Your efforts are greatly appreciated.  …

Black apical spots on anthers

I did not pay a lot of attention to the previous E-mails on this subject.   However, today I was making a reciprocal cross using ‘Mississippi Traveler’ 2 WWY-Y V (matures to 2 W-Y) and a 2 W-Y seedling.  The…

more on Black Tips

Nanstallon is another trumpet (1 Y-Y) with black apical spots, open now.  The spots do not show in The Grange, Bell Rock, Goldfinger, or Golden Horn.  Among other Division 2 that I checked, Casterbridge and Bob Spotts do not show…