It seems to be a feature of many of the seedlings here, but then it can be confusing just where the nectaries end. I really like pronounced nectaries and prefer seedlings with lots of 'topography' (like 'twisty-cot' below; an F3 or F4 seedling)... just where a nectary ends and a tepal rib begins isn't easy to define. The extended 'V' seems to occur on the sepals, whilst petal ribs on the same flower are parallel. Sometimes spotting continues along the lines too, pronouncing the feature. Twisty-cot here maintains parallel ribs on both sepals and petals, the other - a cross between one of my F2 seedlings and an un-named Neil Jordan seedling from his Tas Township bloodline - seems quite pronounced in showing sepal rib Vs:
A couple more of the F2 generation recently opened, 'dark':
and 'other':
I'm really relieved for their reappearance, because both fell victim last year to a neighbour's well-meaning herbicide spraying. I went on holiday, having asked them to water for me, and they did a total yard clean up. I thought they were going to die...
(the lilies, not my neighbours!
) So, just a very few flowers this year, but not lost forever!
'Dark' has tremendous texture and substance, and both seem to display sepal Vs... unless I'm really going cross-eyed? I love the opportunity to examine all these babies with a new perspective, thanks.
(I'm also wondering if parallel ribbing is a necessarily restricted feature of petals because of the way they must accomodate sepal edges in closed buds, whereas sepals lack the feature, and any rib-like feature they do display may just be the extended ridges of nectary furrows, making them more obvious in these seedlings because of the emphasise on papillae and nectaries?)
Oh... I'm reducing file size (and picture quality) to take account of Anthony's ultra-slow download speeds....
