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Self Polinated seedlings with 7 leaflets
jagdish2
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I am in South Western Ontario and my yard has well grown roses flowering in abundance. Main varieties are Queen Elizabeth grandiflora, Cl. Zephyrin Drouhin, Prairie Princess, Cl. Don Juan, Cl. Amricana, Cl. Blaze, and Iceberg floribunda. These all set hips in fall in huge abundance. I plant seeds often but my success rate is no better than .02%. This is the second year for my seedlings and I have got small but we'll formed double ivory colored flowers on one whose mother plant is known to me because of hips were collected from Prairie Princess, a light pink semi double cultivar. My seedling has 7 leaflets instead of 5 which is common for hybrids. Can you suggest me on this new cultivar what kind of rose? I would appreciate your advice.
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Any individual, plant or animall, has two parents. It gets half of its genes from each parent. If the parent is an original species, such as Rosa canina, the offspring will be a Rosa canina. If one parent is from a different species the offspring will be a mix of the two gene sets.
If the parent is itself a hybrid then it is already a mix of genes. If the 'father' is unknown, thanks to bee pollination, there will be at least one other set of genes in the mix, probably two, (making four!) and quite likely more, from the grandparents' generation, if hybrids were involved in the original cross..
So the answer to your question is - it's anybody's guess!
I have a puppy like this. His mother was a Jack Russell, but dad - who knows? He is much smaller and lighter than a Jack, very long soft hair, not short coated and his tail curls over like a skunk's!
@buttercupdays Many thanks for your response. The info provided was very much in the back of my mind but I was thinking the cause of it being seven leaflets when none in my yard has such leaf structure. Over and above its color. I only have iceberg closest to it if at all in color. Surely it is bee or other pollination.
Let''s wait and watch more responses.
As Buttercupdays has explained ... it's in the antecedents of the parents ...... two brown haired parents may have a child with ginger hair, because somewhere in the ancestry of one of the parents there was a ginger-haired individual.
Just because neither of the the parents exhibit the trait, it doesn't mean that they don't carry the genetic material for it.
Somewhere back in the ancestry of one of the parents of your rose was a variety with more than five leaflets.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If you've created a new hybrid can you name it as a new x species? I've often wondered about that.
Thanks. It sounds interesting but I am completely new and amateur hobbiest hence ignorant too. I have another seedling too which is about to flower these days of the same age and leaf character but differ in branching pattern. New seedling has thrown some very attractive long stems too. Let''s wait it to unfurl as it's buds appear pointed and we'll formed like tea bush.