Well regardless of what the original intention of the registry was, it would be nice if it could evolve into something more useful... I mean if all we care about is tracking names and avoiding confusion then we can just all agree to give intros a name that includes the hybridizer name and year of introduction as a suffix... e.g. Daylily Name - 2020 - Joe Breeder... everything would then be unique.
Clearly the current registry is a resource that goes beyond names... I do not see why it cannot track more than it is was originally mandated to track.... Further, it could do a better job with the data it does have. I routinely use this site (garden.org) to look at registered hybrids instead of the registry for three reasons... first daylilies.org is very slow.. takes forever to load pages at times. Second, i can click on pod and pollen parents her to take a look which is manual and more difficult on the daylilies.org site, and third i can often see more photos.
