Pat - That is why I prefer to try to hybridize some rust resistant daylilies.
I got an email from Sue who I think heads up the Daylily Rust email chain:
Hi All,
This list has been quiet for a while, I hope you're all having a good
summer.
The reason I'm writing is that there is to be a university study on
daylily rust that requires rust samples from multiple sites in the USA.
Submissions can be kept private but your general area would need to be
known. Shipping of the rust to the researchers could be paid if desired.
If you are able to supply rust samples for the study please let me know
either through this list or privately (make sure to send to my email
address if private is preferred as responses to posts are otherwise
automatically sent to the whole list). I will then collect and send
your email addresses on to the researcher who will take it from there
(please also include your name if I'm not likely to recognize your email
address). Quite a lot of isolates from different areas are required so
as many of you as possible please assist if you can.
Thanks,
Sue B
If anyone has some leaves with rust that they would be willing to send to the university to study, let me know. Send me a tree-mail with your personal email address and full name and I will pass it on to Sue who will pass it on to the university.
I am not sure of which university that Sue is in correspondence with, but I thought I'd post the link to the Cornell University study:
http://plantclinic.cornell.edu...
It has a short list of some of the daylily cultivars that show susceptibility as well as resistence to rust, so it's worth reading if you haven't already seen this link.
