Fantastic crosses, Joe! Have all my fingers and toes crossed for you.
Haven't heard of papuiljo though, what is it?
Lorn,
Liliums in Australia makes a few references here and there to New Zealand hybrids that were in Australia at the time, and to a "Mr. Tuffery" of New Zealand, but unless I've overlooked something this is the most it elaborates:
"In New Zealand, Tuffery has introduced
L. rubellum and
L. japonicum into the Parkman group. From mixed seed obtained from him a number of years ago, seedlings have flowered at Kalorama in the Dandenong ranges, Victoria, with a colour of a paler and different pink to that of the usual Parkmans; and these may possibly contain
L. rubellum or
L. japonicum. Mr Tuffery has now introduced
L. sargentiae into the group, and seed of this cross has reached Australia."
Remembering this was published in 1967, I guess Tuffery and other 'early' southern hemisphere breeders were working on interdivisionals around the same time as Leslie Woodriff in the US... I wonder what became of these and many of the other southern pioneering crosses?
