Hi friends,
I'm sending a couple photos of the flowers on 'Weirdo'.
First they are very pale flowers, almost tinged with green and the petals are sort of unruly, not the typical flattened form. None of these flowers is symmetrical. Some have a ring of stigmas/ styles that form a triangle, others more a rectangle.
The anthers don't seem to dehisce their pollen or the pollen is itself non-functional as it's a sort of cream instead of yellow. In daylilies, when the pollen looks like that it's NO GOOD. I'm betting the same is true of these.
Bees do seem to think it is a flower and they are visiting the flowers that I haven't covered. Hopefully they'll bring a little pollen over to these flowers to effect some crosses. I've put 'Unicorn' on several flowers of 'Weirdo' and will probably plant even the bee-set seeds as I'm so curious about anything from this plant. It arose in my yard in MA in '73 and this is my first time to see a bloom on it.
Anyway, curiouser and curiouser!
Kevin
