Seedfork said: I have found that the sculpted relief is seldom passed down with the crosses I have done.
I have not made any crosses for sculpted relief. However, the best bet for passing a characteristic to offspring is when you cross two individuals that both have the characteristic.
With some simply inherited characteristics crossing one parent with the characteristic to a daylily that does not have the characteristic will typically not produce any seedlings with the characteristic. That is the typically the situation when the parent without the characteristic has no ancestors that had the characteristic.
In other simply inherited characteristics crossing one parent with the characteristic to a daylily that does not have the characteristic will typically produce either 50% of the seedlings with the characteristic or 100%.
However, when the characteristic is not simply inherited then what happens is not easily predictable.
I do not expect that any of the sculpted forms are simply inherited because the characteristics are variable in their appearance even in plants that show the characteristic (formally called variable expressivity). I suspect that they also not always appear when they should (formally called incomplete penetrance).
