Viewing post #663634 by chalyse

Marna! Very happy to see you here! Thanks for sharing your daylily with Claudia, and letting us know that your fans are stable. Certainly, if sports, stable stripes, color-splits and stippling were a frequent occurrence there would be no question that it happens in daylilies. What is remarkable is how very many stripes and stipples are now getting registered, seemingly exponentially and from all sorts of lineages (when know). And, the sheer number of starkly "split-color" blooms that people are able to document with pictures has certainly increased.

Until someone can document that a sport is more likely what has happened than a dropped seed or mix up, however, by showing connection to the original fan by crown or rhizome, it cannot really be known if a sport has likely occurred. And, same cautions apply for whether any split-color blooms would become stable or could be reproduced, whether through random, self-pollinated, or-line breeding practices. But sports are a big area of so many other plants (roses and hostas come to mind) that it doesn't seem like it would be quite so impossible as it is perceived to be. Not much to lose by trying some further hybridizing with such fans, though, as far as I can see.