@clockworkhawkins
The natural species of Hemerocallis are diploids. They can still be found growing in various parts of Asia. If a single plant of one of those natural species is dug from the wild and grown in a garden then it can become a cultivar and given a cultivar name.
'Hankow' should have originally been a wild plant of the species Hemerocallis fulva that was collected and grown in gardens. If it was simply one plant growing in a meadow or field where many other H. fulva plants were growing, then it probably would be a normal diploid. On the other hand, triploids can rarely occur naturally and since they are different from normal plants (sterile, do not produce seeds normally, etc.) they sometimes are specifically chosen (the plant that is different from others in a field - it sticks out) and brought into gardens.
Although unreduced gametes are discussed in daylilies, the objective evidence suggests that they are extremely rare. In species that produce unreduced gametes at useable rates one tends to find that the natural species are not just diploids but also tetraploids, or above. There are some natural triploid daylilies but no natural tetraploid daylilies suggesting that unreduced gametes in daylilies are very rare. I do not know of any evidence that suggests H. minor produces unreduced gametes. Arisumi, a geneticist, conducted research looking for unreduced gametes in cultivated daylilies - he did not find any and made a large number of crosses in that search.
What is the misleading information about colchicine?
