Yellow Questions

[Tim Harberd]

Hi Folks,
   Doing a bit of back reading I was intrigued by Anne’s comment that the leaves of her Wendy's Gold X Lutescens seedlings are ''…..a 'swarm'. everything from pure applanate to fairly plicate….'' (in the thread Galanthus 2011).

   Doesn’t that prove that one of the parents is, itself, a hybrid?

   In a first generation nivalisXplicatus cross, which is the dominant phenotype??

Tim DH

[Alan_b]

   Doesn’t that prove that one of the parents is, itself, a hybrid?

I have visited the locale where Wendy's Gold arose.  There are many many plicatus snowdrops of all shapes, sizes and markings spread over quite a small area.  I think Wendy's Gold probably originated there, although none remain now, because there isn't really anywhere else.  About 400m away is a large area of G. nivalis.  And there are some bee hives roughly half way between the two.  Thus there is certainly potential for hybridization although I'm not sure about the likelihood of it happening.