From Brad Best face book site.......
SCIENTIFIC FACT:
A most incredible 'stable' breakthrough daylily form we've been hybridizing, from the beginning of it's infancy (c. 1997) and selling since 2005, was in fact officially established (according to ICNCP code/Article #11) as the: "Bearded" daylily (reference: 2005 Winter "Daylily Journal" issue). Most likely you will not hear about this within most AHS gatherings (due to the lack of experience working the form in AHS circles). For the sake of hybridizing, scientific studies and education purposes our 'Bearded' genetics (or any other like genetics for that matter) - should not be described or mentored with botanically incorrect language (ie: cristate/crested; or sculpted: a term not found in the botanical dictionary vs. 'bearded' ('barbed' appendage daylilies). It has already been stated by AHS (in 2005) and proven in our gardens in the '90's that 'Crested' (petaloid appendages) vs. 'Bearded' forms (appendages w/petal tissue) are 'not like' cultivars (they must be described with different botanical terms and are both physically and genetically different). Describing them within synonymous language or alternative term(s) will simply create botanical mistakes and hybridizing confusion - which is beginning to happen with newcomers trying to mentor barbed/bearded appendage forms with some of the secondary cristate/crested terms (because they and others mentoring the form do not fully understand how to differentiate the two forms at hand).
There's been several mistakes and assumptions made by some in the scientific community regarding 'Bearded' genetics over the past 8-years since 2008 (after 'Bearding' in daylilies was already established). It is our goal at Rainbow Hill Daylily Farm and the 'Bearded Daylily Society' to assist newcomers in hybridizing and nurturing a new daylily form and keep botanically incorrect language(s) and assumptions from misleading the next generation in hybridizing. If unlike forms are grouped and/or mentored together it will lead to 'unintentional' unstable outcrosses - causing a loss of time and money. The goal is to keep the 'Bearded' form stable!
