DaylilyNut -- Seedling #03-07-11
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This is a 2003 dormant diploid seedling that is being kept for breeding and further evaluation. The companion flower in the picture is Dave Talbott's oldie but goodie Hemerocallis 'Pandora's Box'. I had always thought of PB as a benchmark for white in an eyed flower. But as you see, that has been surpassed by quite a bit. I know of no other red eyed flower which comes close to the red-white contrast found in #03-07-11.
One of the major foci of my hybridizing is to clarify color by invoking as much "whiteness" as I can get into my lines. This flower not only possesses great whiteness, but it passes it on to its offspring. It is a result of an outcross using Wyatt Lefever's H. 'Forsyth Snow Boy' pollen on a seedling of mine which is from [(H. 'Joan Senior' x H. 'Peppermint Stripe') x (H. 'Siloam Virginia Henson' x H. 'Janice Brown')] I still grow this parent and both grandparent seedlings. At left is a genealogy shot. Shown at top left is H. 'Siloam Virginia Henson'. To its right is H. 'Janice Brown'. On the second row down are shown the odd offspring of the cross (H. 'Joan Senior' x H. 'Peppermint Stripe') at left, and the SVH x JB offspring which, as you can see, is considerably whiter than either parent. The third row down shows, at left, the very white red-eyed seedling that is a cross of the two flowers above it. At right is H. 'Forsyth Snow Boy'. Finally Seedling #03-07-11 appears at the bottom. It does not appear as white as its parents in this picture because of an uneven shadowing (compare the grass color), but in "real life" it appears as white or whiter than its parents. Also see the long discussion under Hybridizing for Midribs for an image of, and more discussion about H. 'Peppermint Stripe').
The form of this seedling is ordinary (though better than FSB). There is no focus on form in this program, just on a very clear flower on a good plant.
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