Adam: Dykes crossed them and got several nice cultivars, all of which I
believe have vanished.

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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