Thanks to all of you who answered my questions about the Iris douglasiana appearing in 4s instead of 3s. I also heard back from John Manning who described it as a mutant caused by a developmental glitch. I had sent him photos of a flower that had the coloring of Sparaxis villosa which flowered around the same time, but was really different in shape. He wrote about it: "The sparaxis looks like what is known among horticulturists as a peloric form of Sparaxis villosa. In such forms there is again a mutation or developmental glitch in which the zygomorphy fails and one gets actinomorphic forms." I thought it might be interesting to show photos of Sparaxis villosa flowering a few weeks before this mutant form. I wonder if there will be anything showing up in that spot in the garden next year and if so what it might look like. As Jane said in her response about the iris, usually when there are extra or less petals on my bulbs that doesn't repeat in subsequent years. Mary Sue -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Sparaxis_villosa_2022.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 241091 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Sparaxis_villosa_2022b.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 313060 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Sparaxis_villosa_mutant.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 366264 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>
