SEEDLING PAGE 14
O4-11 A STARTLING DEVELOPMENT
The following images are of a plant that has our complete attention. It is a direct baby from SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. The first image is the appearance in the early morning. The second represents the look at 10am. The remainder are various shots taken later in the day. In person, the color can only be described as turquoise. My wife, Janice, is a passionate quilter. She deals with true blue in fabric all the time. Jan has never admitted to seeing any blue in any daylily we have ever grown here. She freely refers to the color here as turquoise. We discovered this seedling late in the season. The few people who saw 04-11 were unanimous. Among the comments were: "It is turquoise." "It is beautiful."
Our thanks to Karen Martin of Lancaster, Ohio for use of the last image. While that image overemphasizes the blue component of the color it does give an idea of the impact of the blossom in a way that none of my own images could. The second image from the last shows some of the jade component of the color. The green component could be a lot of fun to play with also.
Here is an image of 04-11 that we took in '05. It is just the way it came off the camera with no adjustments of any kind other than a cropping of the image to fit the screen better.
We do not know where this seedling will take us. The most exciting thing is that the turquoise is not to be found in the eye. I am not aware of any turquoise having been seen in any daylily. I have heard that Elizabeth Salter has had some turquoise in an eyezone. The presence of these pigments in the petal area leave open the possibilities for some colorations unlike anything we have seen before.
'06 note There was just enough indication in a couple of seedling that some of the ability of this seedling to lose its overlay of color to reveal turquoise/jade can be passed along to the babies. There is nothing approaching a finished flower yet but the preliminary results are encouraging.