gnathaniel
Lurker
Foliage markings aren't a good way to distinguish Fumi's Delight and its parent species, both armeniacum and micranthum can be pretty diverse and FDs are unsurprisingly all over the map in this regard. Doesn't one species have very finely toothed leaf edges and the other not? I don't recall which is which off the top of my head, but if armeniacum has teeth then their presence in this plant would indicate probable armeniacum ancestry, though absence doesn't necessarily indicate the reverse...
I think Rick's suggestion that this might not be F1 (armeniacum x micranthum) is spot-on, (FD x FD) progeny are more likely than F1 to favor one parent over another. A 2N armeniacum x 4N micranthum cross would also be somewhat micranthum-dominated. And as orchideya points out, the micranthum parent being eburneum and/or the armeniacum being markii could account for trait combinations not matching what we're used to seeing in FD. Some genes encode for visible traits while some affect expression of other genes in direct or indirect ways, and it's pretty much a given that distinct varieties or forms of a species have some genetic distinction from the general population.
Finally, there's an inherent problem in using online pictures to judge the range of how FD looks since these will heavily favor the 'good' ones that people want to show off. armeniacum's color is a major attractive feature sought by breeders of this cross, and if color expression relies on any of the same genes as staminode shape then there may be a hidden selection bias making FD flowers appear more armeniacum-dominant than they actually tend to be.
Wow, that was way longer than it needed to be but yeah, this is much more likely Fumi's Delight than straight micranthum...
I think Rick's suggestion that this might not be F1 (armeniacum x micranthum) is spot-on, (FD x FD) progeny are more likely than F1 to favor one parent over another. A 2N armeniacum x 4N micranthum cross would also be somewhat micranthum-dominated. And as orchideya points out, the micranthum parent being eburneum and/or the armeniacum being markii could account for trait combinations not matching what we're used to seeing in FD. Some genes encode for visible traits while some affect expression of other genes in direct or indirect ways, and it's pretty much a given that distinct varieties or forms of a species have some genetic distinction from the general population.
Finally, there's an inherent problem in using online pictures to judge the range of how FD looks since these will heavily favor the 'good' ones that people want to show off. armeniacum's color is a major attractive feature sought by breeders of this cross, and if color expression relies on any of the same genes as staminode shape then there may be a hidden selection bias making FD flowers appear more armeniacum-dominant than they actually tend to be.
Wow, that was way longer than it needed to be but yeah, this is much more likely Fumi's Delight than straight micranthum...