Well, L. albida x sib is still L. albida, the species, And so would be likely to breed true, with a white flower, some color on the lip. So where did the pink come from? L. anceps var. veitchiana (of which 'Fort Caroline' is a very good cultivar) might have a "typical" ancestor recessively in there someplace. I leave it to breeders who are far more knowledgeable than I am about the genetics involved, to make sense of it. It's pretty clear that the goal of this cross was a coerulea L. Finckeniana... but nooooo..... didn't work out that way.
Jeff, just to make it even more interesting.... yours looks like it might also have a peloric L. anceps (var. roeblingiana) hiding in there someplace - that light flare on the petals. So the ancestry of line-bred L. anceps varieties is likely to be complex (and since it's all L. anceps, all undocumented except in breeders' notebooks, which are, of course, private)
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