I guess I'm a little late to the party, but here's my 2 cents worth......I have Identity Crisis. We've grown it for a couple of years and have two clumps of it. One was more green and is very healthy and tall. The other one was mostly white and has been a pretty weak grower and blooms at 1/2 the height of the other one. I am attaching a couple of pictures of the healthier (more green) plant in bloom. Please ignore the weeds. They are only a figment of your imagination........
This plant, for me, has a habit like Kwanso variegata. A green plant may throw a variegated one and the variegated ones commonly revert. They may be half and half, striped, or some variation. Totally unstable. I'm jealous of Brian's clump of Kwanso's...I wish mine were stable. without management, my clumps tend to become at least 80% all green. I have to cut out the all-green fans to encourage the others. I think Identity Crisis will be the same way...I can either have nice, variegated foliage OR a tall, healthy plant that is mostly green. The ones with too much white just don't produce enough energy to make a tall scape. I have not found the white foliage easily damaged by sun, though. Some variegated plants have white areas that easily sunburn, like Canna Stuttgart.
I have also grown Golden Zebra, very poorly, I might add. It was a tiny little thing from Wayside. I got two small blooms on it once and lost it one winter. It never was very healthy.
There is another variegated daylily that behaves like some hostas....comes up variegated and then goes all green in the summer. I haven't grown this one. There is a great picture of it, Secured Borders, on the Plant Delights site, but they aren't currently offering it. This is an archived page. Maybe if they get enough requests it will come back. I know they rotate plants in and out as they have stock. It looks pretty cool....
http://www.plantdelights.com/H...
Here's a snapshot of the Plant Delights photo:
Apparently the plant is currently available from QuackinGrass Nursery for $12 :
http://quackingrassnursery.com...
It's interesting that on both Kwanso variegata and on Identity Crisis, when there is white on the flowering scape, the buds on that portion are also pure white, but the blooms open and develop totally normal color.
My wife, Nancy, and I grow a lot of seedlings and I'm always on the lookout for variegation. We have one tet plant that the leaves show striations, but they fade by the end of the summer. It isn't that healthy...it isn't even blooming this spring and hasn't grown that much. I almost wonder if it has a virus...the light areas are almost ridged in the leaves. We also have a diploid seedling that was all green and then threw a fan with one white stripe on one side. It disappeared the next year, but came back this spring. Neither has particularly interesting blooms.
I'll try to get pictures of those two and repost later. Neither is that impressive and probably won't amount to anything, but I keep hoping.... Bob
I am thinking of getting identity crisis.
