Colchicum 'Alboplenum' ? 'White Waterlily'
John Grimshaw (Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:13:15 PDT)
Jim McKenney wrote:
It might be worthwhile to re-do these crosses using the white-flowered
Colchicum 'Innocence' aka 'byzantinum album' instead of Colchicum speciosum
'Album'. <
Possibly, but Colchicum byzantinum is an ancient sterile hybrid, and
'Innocence' is presumably a sport from it: I can't imagine that a change of
colour has restored fertility.
John Grimshaw
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