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Post by ottawagardener on Feb 3, 2015 7:32:00 GMT -5
I would like to recreate the cross(es) between Althaea officinalis and Alcea sp. Anyone know of any documents discussing it? x Alcalthaea suffrutescens ‘Parkallee’ is one example.
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Post by darrenabbey on Feb 3, 2015 15:37:54 GMT -5
Apparently I was bored with what I was working on, so I dug into this a bit. There are (or were) a couple other varieties, "Parkrondell" and "Parkfrieden" : www.madwithjoy.com/plants/plants-a-c/x-alcalthaea-suffrutescens-parkallee/The page at "http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Malva/Park.php" mentions a publication (Z. Kováts and K. Karip-Szabö, The Use of Hungarian Wild Plants in the Ornamental Plant Breeding, Acta Hort.612: 172-173) which can be found at "http://www.actahort.org/books/612/612_21.htm". You might not be able to access the document if you're not at a university, but it really doesn't say anything about how they did the cross. They do mention the novelty of doing breeding work with local weedy mallows, instead of the tropical types with spectacular flowers that others had been using. The published chromosome counts for the species suggests the cross might be fertile in many cases, though you'd want to avoid tetraploid hollyhocks. Chr count for Alcea rosea = 42/84 : www.tropicos.org/Name/19601240?projectid=9Chr count for Althaea officinalis = 42 : www.tropicos.org/Name/19601250?projectid=9 |
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Post by ottawagardener on Feb 3, 2015 17:11:14 GMT -5
Thanks Darren. Yeah, I couldn't find anything about how they did it either. Maybe I should just start moving pollen. Thanks for the tip of tetraloids.
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