Ray & SouthPark to the rescue!!! Here is the link for how the AOS briefly discusses it....Look on the first page, under "HYBRIDIZING" and then have a few sentenances about it.
http://www.aos.org/AOS/media/Content...eyas_Word_.pdf
I also found this blog where it isn't discussed in a little further detail....5th paragraph down!
Half a pound of treacle: 2012
That then lead me to an article by Ron Midgett however I couldn't get the link to open....since it was published in an AOS journal, shouldn't I be able to see look up the article online as a member now???
I know it sometimes is only the..."irregular opening of a petal to a extreme to the polliinous looking growths on the margins of petals and sepals"....Thank you AOS judging standards link, or the first link attached!
I just couldn't quite fully understand this statement!
But I do believe Ray is right that it can be various reasons. I found another article for winter checklist warning of mealybugs ability to cause "flower crippling" too. So putting all these together, I think it is definitely a variable thing and C. dowiana is simply the most prone to it and is capable of passing that down in its genetics. I also know age is a factor and it increases in severity as the plant ages.
Lots of information, jut couldn't quite make sense of it all!!!! I really need to read Ron Midgetts article!
Hybrid Mode
