Bob. For sure? Unbelievable. and a good reason to not believe anybody when it comes to trying new things , ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Pries" <robertpries@embarqmail.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:08 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Iris lazica x I. unguicularis > Adam: Dykes crossed them and got several nice cultivars, all of which I > believe have vanished. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Fikso" <adam14113@ameritech.net> > To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:18:19 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [pbs] Iris lazica x I. unguicularis > > These two irises are most unlikely to yield any seed whatsoever. The > chromosome numbers are really incompatible. I. lazica has a 2n = 32. but > could be a tetraploid and unguicularis has a 2n of 40 or 50. I can't > imagine quite how a matchup could occur, Really odd linkages and matches > occur in some plant groups but I've not known this to occur in irises > > >