Hi Jane: How much has been done with Frit hybrids/ I think it could be a new exciting avenue. Harold At 10:41 AM 4/24/2005, you wrote: >I seem to have some hybrids among California Fritillaria species raised >from home-grown seed. I would post pictures of them on the wiki if I knew >how to sign in, but I have not tried to post anything since it changed, >and apparently I need a password which I do not know, or else I don't know >exactly how to enter my user name. > >Anyway, I apologize if anyone has grown plants from my garden seeds of >Fritillaria purdyi and/or Fritillaria biflora, and now has seedlings in >flower that don't look like what they are supposed to be. It appears that >both groups of plants produced at least a few hybrid seeds. The one with >F. purdyi as a seed parent is quite large, flowering probably 2 years >before the other seedlings in its group, with 10 flowers on a stout stem >-- impressive! -- but the flowers have a greenish ground color rather than >the creamy white of F. purdyi, though they are marked like that species. >The ones with F. biflora as a seed parent are similar, but smaller, with >only 2 or 3 flowers per stem on first flowering; they have typical purdyi >checkering rather than the "tips and stripes" of biflora. Some apparently >pure biflora seedlings are flowering in the same group. > >I will search around and see if I can find out how to access the wiki >during the next few days, to show these interesting plants. Interesting >but disappointing to some, no doubt, because biflora is dead common and >purdyi is much sought after. > >Jane McGary >Northwestern Oregon > > > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php