It's common enough in other plants. I have images of ten tepaled crinums and four tepaled crinums and if you plant those big gnarly tomatoes like big zac, you might notice the flowers are nearly doubled except they do have a pistil. I've seen it in dandelions too and assumed it was some sort of signalling problem. I even had a chestnut tree image that I probably lost in the last computer crash where there was a catkin at the apex of the tree which then sprouted a bud on the top and then leaves, etc and the tree continued growing through its flower. Definitely a quality control issue. On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 6:41 PM Mary Sue Ittner via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > This iris was seen in the woods on the Mendocino-Sonoma coast. Our > native iris is Iris douglasiana and an inland one is Iris purdyi. They > rarely are seen in the same area and although I'm seen a lot of Iris > douglasiana on my walks, I've never encountered one that looked like > this. It seems to be divided into 4s instead of 3s or 6s as is the usual > floral structure for flowers in the iris family. I'm curious if others > have seen this happen and have clues as to how it happens. > > Mary Sue > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: Iris_Mendonoma_PXL.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 2310177 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
