Catt IQ test

Is one of the species hardyana?

Kevin

Good guess, Kevin, but no! Don't let that yellow throat trip you up.

If you use the IOSPE, I'd go more for the unifoliate species with a very, very pale lavender petal and sepal. The yellow throat is misleading, and is in part from the bifoliate parent (the easier to identify!)

Good guessing, though - this is a toughie!

McJulie

Originally Posted by Piper

Good guess, Kevin, but no! Don't let that yellow throat trip you up.

If you use the IOSPE, I'd go more for the unifoliate species with a very, very pale lavender petal and sepal. The yellow throat is misleading, and is in part from the bifoliate parent (the easier to identify!)

Good guessing, though - this is a toughie!

McJulie

Maybe loddigesii? If this is one of the parents, the unifoliate parent would have a fuller form...I assume.

Kevin

Everyone's lost interest in my little guessing game. Sniff, sniff.

The bifoliate parent is Catt. walkeriana. That influence is recognizable. Pat Mahon picked right up on it. The unifoliate parent is Catt. warneri. That would have been very hard to figure out. The lavender color is so pale I wonder if the C. warneri might have been a coerulea variation.

The cross is Catt. Sea Breeze 'Blue Ribbon' HCC/AOS. She's pretty, even if you can't figure out who her parents were!

McJulie

Hey McJulie,

No need to be so snifffffffffffffff up!!! Hehheeheeheheeee ....

Your plant is so hard. Besides, if it is a coerulea clone as the name suggests, the flowers are pink! Really pink, my dear friend! I have seen the Sea Breeze coerulea clone and this one is so pink I wonder if it is at all!

They're pinker in the photo than in regular light. I think the halogen shop lamp I'm using in my photo shoots throws a lot of yellow light, and I don't have Photoshop anymore, and its excellent color correction.

Lavender, more than pink, but not really any hint of blue. It's a clone of the awarded plant, so perhaps it didn't get the best light during bud formation to bring out its color potential. It also opened very green and it took several days to get to the lavender. I thought it was going to be more green & white at first.

So I don't know what var its parents were, but I still think it's a pretty flower. And it's nice to have a fall-blooming Catt!

McJulie

Originally Posted by bench72

like taking a walk in the park! and I know, I know, you did warn me about giving away too many clues...

hmmph

I told em it was a walk(eriana) in the park! And yes I did get a warn(eri) about giving word clues!

Tim-O, our dearest PoP, it wasn't your fault they snubbed our game...

I think with the holidays upon us here in the U.S., everyone's preoccupied. Not to mention all the gazillions of new members and new posts. This place is giving me an ADD retention span!

McJulie