pbs Digest, Vol 54, Issue 9 -- Super E and correction to earlier note re Hippeastrelia
Adam Fikso (Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:41:57 PDT)

I am growing Super E here in the Chicago area. (The label says so--bought it
on eBay.) It has come through one winter planted at 20" from the
foundation. The other one, planted in the open, and a wetter spot in early
spring/winter rotted out.

The correction is in response to Jim's (early this year) comment that he
doubted that I was growing Hippeastrelia ( H. johnsonii x
'Durgapradhan'). He was right. I was wrong.

I am now fairly convinced in my own mind that that was the result of
confusion in my head, transferred to a tag which was then lost. B.J. M
Zonneveld was also kind enough to do a DNA weight test on some of those
seedlings and he pronounced them the result of apomixis, rather than a
pollination. I do have some other seedlings from that same attempt at
hybridization which show two of them with some of their leaves coiled like a
watch spring. They are currently growing under lights and not very large.
The leaves are very thin.--about 2-3 mm wide, and about a foot long.

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