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Saga of Callirhoe (winecups) Classic genetic puzzle.

Posted by Geoforce Z6a SE PA (My Page) on
Tue, Jul 1, 03 at 18:42

While visiting friends in N Texas about 20 years ago I saw these in bloom everywhere, and couldn't resist. I 'Saved' a couple of them from a grader ditch and brought them to SE PA (both were typical wine purple callirhoe involucrata or so I thought). These were perfectly hardy and completely at home here, which in itself, amazed me.

3-4 years later I started getting pink seedlings. Neat!!
3-4 more years And I started getting white seedlings. Even neater!!

Now after about 20 years I have 6 main types of these:
Wine, pink, and white.
Red styles and white styles.

The 6 are all combinations of the color and style color.

Ratios suggest a non dominant color gene which is dilute (pink) in heterozygous material and a recessive gene for style color (1 to 4).

Goes anyone have any info on these,? Is it possible these are not species C. involucrata, but a hybrid with one of the other species? I love them, but still want to solve this mystery.


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RE: Saga of Callirhoe (winecups) Classic genetic puzzle.

I have seen seed for sale in a catalog which produces white callirhoe - I don't know that this helps you with your question, however.


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RE: Saga of Callirhoe (winecups) Classic genetic puzzle.

Maybe environment is somehow influencing their expression.

I would suspect that you randomly selected from a heter population originally.

keith


 
 

 

 


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