Phrag. besseae fma flavum 'D'Oro' - 4N

[tomkalina]

Our only 4N Phrag. besseae fma flavum in bloom this morning. This is the second flower on the stem; the first was partially crippled, but this one was perfect. It isn't fully open yet, but when I looked at the pollinia early this morning, one pollen mass was already dry and black, but the other looked good so I self pollinated it. Hoping for a nice batch of 4N besseae flavum seedlings but as we all know, it's a long road from pollination to seedling.

 

[kiwi]

Really nice

 

[Tom-DE]

Very nice but I like your normal(red) AM clone better.

 

[Linus_Cello]

Put me on the list

 

[John M]

Wonderful!

 

[NYEric]

Yay besseae, flavum!

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[JasonG]

I echo Linus’ sentiments. List me. That is a beautiful plant.


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[MorandiWine]

Put me down for a flask!!


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[abax]

Perfection Tom. I've never seen one any better.

 

[grubea]

Yeah I will take one too.

 

[dodidoki]

Perfect round form!!!

 

[Ozpaph]

lovely form

 

[blondie]

Thats a lovley flower

 

[Phrag-Plus]

Gorgeous and round! That is a good one Tom!

 

[Markhamite]

Love the substance of the flower. Beautiful colour too!

 

[tomkalina]

....and here's the third flower with a two week old (x self) seed pod in the background. Fingers crossed for seedlings in a year or two.

 

[JasonG]

Congrats! I’ll be crossing fingers too.


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[NYEric]

Good luck.

 

[raymond]

very nice

 

[Hien]

Our only 4N Phrag. besseae fma flavum in bloom this morning. This is the second flower on the stem; the first was partially crippled, but this one was perfect. It isn't fully open yet, but when I looked at the pollinia early this morning, one pollen mass was already dry and black, but the other looked good so I self pollinated it. Hoping for a nice batch of 4N besseae flavum seedlings but as we all know, it's a long road from pollination to seedling.

What puzzles me is that all the articles mentioned that there was only one original clone of besseae flavum .
However , it seems that all the current plants that we see today actually look quite different from each others , some darker yellow , some lighter, some with slender petals etc..
So was there more flavum found and breeders were not aware that they actually outcrossing later on ? or just by selfing one could have so many variations like that ?