Papilio 'improved'?
Lee Poulsen (Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:05:56 PDT)
I ordered one of these from Scheepers a few years ago, because I also
thought it looked kind of like a cybister x papilio cross. When it
finally bloomed, it looked exactly like H. papilio. It has proven to be
very vigorous and blooms with multiple stalks. (This year my one-gallon
pot has four scapes so far.) And the flowers last longer than my
ordinary papilios. Either I got a straight papilio that was mislabeled
or could I have gotten an F2 that happens to appear just like the
papilio parent only more vigorous? It doesn't look anything like the
picture in the catalog.
--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10
On Apr 14, 2004, at 7:50 AM, Cynthia Mueller wrote:
There is a cultivar in circulation known as 'Papilio Improved' which
looks very like the spidery cybister hybrids. I have viewed it lately
on the Scheepers website, I believe.
At first when I saw reference to 'Papilio Improved' I thought that
meant it would bloom more readily or stay open longer. Now I see that
it looks very, very different from Papilio.
Cynthia Mueller