bsharf said: I was surprised to learn of the Florida series of hybrids. I had never seen them in the marketplace or even heard of them.
Yes. Curious. The key might be the sentence at the bottom of these slides: "for licensing information" and the notation to contact ARS USDA, as the creator was working for them (them being USDA-ARS-SHRS, National Germplasm Repository in Florida.)
If nobody decided to pursue that licensing agreement-
they might never have been propagated/sold. As the offer is being made by the USDA research arm, it may not be as motivated (profit-driven?) as a breeder in the Netherlands might be to recoup cost of development.
Which would be unfortunate, as H. Jax seems particularly striking to me. I'd totally buy it if I could.
Even more curiously, I did find a reference to H. 'Jax' in the NGA database, entered in 2017, but no picture.
Amaryllis (Hippeastrum 'Jax')
And the most curious of all? (And probably only curious to me,) all of these have H. Papillo in their parentage, but I would never have guessed that.
