robinjoy said:Sue-
I imagine the species H. citrina is commonly found. How likely is it that the cultivar 'Baroni' is actually being grown now? So many of the early hybrids are lost.
I really don't know, there are people selling seeds online supposedly from
H. citrina, whether they really are selfed or not, or really from
H. citrina I have no idea. I would imagine since you got it from a specialist daylily grower that the plant you have was likely produced vegetatively.
But from a Daylily Journal in 1992, in a series on the species by John Schabell, there's a quote from Kitchingman in England ".........'Baroni' become more popular and this has led to the species being abandoned.....I have both the species and 'Baroni' and I must admit to preferring the original species."
Perhaps one would need to find a source of what is known to be the hybrid 'Baroni' and grow it side by side. I have seen people talk about a "
Hemerocallis citrina Baroni clone", but I don't know whether what they are referring to is the hybrid cultivar 'Baroni' without realizing it is a hybrid, or whether they are suggesting the
H. citrina they have is a clone of the original described by Baroni.
Whether it would be possible to ever really sort this out I don't know!
