(One Tree Hill X Melinga) 6n-3n

[GaryCAZ]

Every picture tells a story. I made a cross for some growers one day in Holland. One of the group grew on the plants, which were triploids, from two albas crossed together. Another member of the group suggested that a small royalty be paid to the hybridizer when one of the cross was selected. The person who had grown the plants demurred and claimed that he had made the same cross and the good one had come out of his pod! Of course he lied. Anyway, I was walking through a block of the clones that were starting to bloom in Bert's greenhouse and I stopped dead in my tracks. There right by the aisle was a hexaploid mutation and even better, it had good tall spikes and plenty of them. So now Bert has a fertile plant and all he has to do is cross it with alba diploids. Karma!

Andy Easton

[Van Deiman]

I went back to buy a One Tree Hill at an orchid meet - it had gone. The best yellow I have ever seen, grown in Port Macquarie - lat 31 Deg 26"S.

[Albert Nakaji]

It baffles me how a triploid can be used as a pollen parent to cross anything (I still don't know why a triploid can't be crossed to another triploid), but the flowers certainly are great looking.

[MrCym]

A triploid is not used as either a pollen or pod parent...... The hexaploid mutation will breed with any diploid to give a 4n result, heavily dominated by the hexaploid (3:1) of course.