here is a link to our Daylily Database here at ATP.
The Daylilies Database
But, if you are not all that familiar with daylilies, you may not know names of daylilies to look up to get good examples.
I thought I would try to give you the links to a few well known daylily "parents" to get you started. I just asked Dave today to add a thumbnail of the "child" plant to the page that comes up when you click on the "number of child plants" Thanks
@dave for adding this feature! This thread is the reason I asked you to do this today!
To get to that, for an example… go to my link of Admiral's Braid below. At the bottom of the second area of information… right above where the photos start it says "Child plants:" then "311 child plants" If you click on the "311 Child plants" you will go to a new page with all the registered child plants of Admiral's braid. You can click on the child plant's name to go to that plant's information page, or go to their parentage off to the right (which are also clickable to take you to those parent's pages etc) .
Hope that makes sense!
Here are some older, but well used parent plants. I'm just pulling these off the top of my head, trying to give you a wide variety of looks and colors.
ADMIRAL'S BRAID is a famous parent.
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Admiral's Braid')
DANCE BALLERINA DANCE was very widely used years ago.
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Dance Ballerina Dance')
BARBARA MITCHELL, a diploid, had quite a variety of colors registered as offspring.
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Barbara Mitchell')
There are enough ED BROWN offspring registered that you may find some that are the same cross by different hybridizers, or even the same hybridizer. Those flowers may look different.
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Ed Brown')
FOOLED ME could show the dominance of an eye….
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Fooled Me')
SABINE BAUR is a completely different look.
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Sabine Baur')
KINDLY LIGHT is a long petaled spider.
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Kindly Light')
TRAHLYTA makes some unusual seedlings.
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Trahlyta')
If there are particular traits you are trying to show to your students, perhaps others here could chime in on daylilies that might have child plants with photos in our database that would show the traits you are trying to show.
If all you want to do is start some seeds for a class, I am sure there would be people who could send you a few - but depending on your conditions it can take a while for them to bloom. Here in Ohio it can take 3-4 years. Texas ? 2 years maybe? Just so you are aware of that.
Also, on the Daylily Database home page, under the link for Generic Daylilies Entry, you will find this page…. there are photos there of seed pods, seedlings all sorts of things.
Daylilies (Hemerocallis)
