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Registration ID: 1508
Registrant: Clivia Society
Country: South Africa
Cultivar Information
Cultivar Name: Poorman's Peach
Species: Clivia miniata
Breeder: Nick Primich
Record: For reference
Description: Bred by Nick Primich out of his Type 1 using ‘Aurea” pollen “Is there a better way to start a new day in a New Year, in a New Century, in a New Millennium than to tell you about a New development in Clivia colours. The new development may be stretching a point a bit, but it seems I have traced the evolvement of a “peach” from its parents. My orange plant which produced a yellow from a selfing of otherwise oranges is known to me as ‘Wild Type One’. It usually appears in my documentation as ‘Type One’. It is one of the first clivias I acquired, about ’86 or so. It is a smallish plant with slender leaves and a fairly open flower of a medium orange. At the time I knew little about Clivias, which was just as well, for I was not impressed with this plant. It was a strong grower and usually produces an umbel of 12-18 florets. It selfs superbly. I can clearly remember the first umbel was of 12 florets which produced 144 seeds. Now I only had a few Clivias at this stage, and I soon changed my mind about “type 1”. In 1988 this one little seedling appeared amongst the others and Lo! it had a green base. What Joy and excitement! It was a tremendous long wait until it eventually flowered. What a disappointment. It was the most unprepossessing yellow I have ever seen. It did not improve on any of its subsequent flowerings. I did however, breed with it, or at least attempted to do so. Some 60+ seeds from the first lot which was a selfing. I might add that I have always selfed the first flowering of my yellows to see if it would produce only yellows, or if a few oranges would sneak in. Then I planted these seeds and soon had my next surprise. Every one had a dark base. This was in 1996. I kept quite a few, slung out some real runts, and gave a few nice ones away. I still have about 20. Some of these look far lustier than their slight parent, and may possibly flower this coming season. They will of course be selfed and “siblinged” etc, and perhaps even crossed back to mother if there are enough flowering. This will tell us a bit more of the information we would like to know about this interesting line of plants. In 1995, I put some ‘Aurea’ pollen on ‘Type 1’. About 25% of the seedlings showed green bases, and I thought I had bred myself a nice little batch of yellows which were bound to be improved by the great ‘Aurea’ flower. I was growing these seedlings on in my glasshouse, and one day I had picked up one of the coke bottles that I grew them in when I got another surprise. The so-called green base was showing distinct signs of pigment. A clearly pinkish-brown tone had taken over the base. So there were about 15-16 of these putative yellows. I immediately put them on a top bench so it would be easier to give them a regular examination. Over the years nearly all had darkened bases. Eventually one with a green base flowered. A Yellow! Quite a nice looking one at that. Still more surprises! I keep a lot of my flowers on the table at the back stoep (porch to non-SA’s). I walked out the next morning to start pollination and this flower had taken on a peach haze. It deepened over a few days. Still one more surprise. The oranges that always had dark bases from the ‘Aurea’ cross, were all exactly the same colour as the parent ‘Type 1’. As you know, it is usual for the oranges to take on a paler colour after a crossing with a yellow. This is perhaps the biggest surprise, and the key to the origin of the so-called “peach”. There are more crosses on the way, and we will find out if all yellows have this effect when crossed with ‘Type 1’. Lots of exciting things to see. And before I forget, I have another strange yellow, but I will tell about that at another time. Greetings one and all, may we all have a Great Clivia Year.” Nick Primich (from a letter to the enthusiast group, later reprinted in Clivia Society Newsletter 2001-1)
Photographer: Sean Chubb
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Administrative Info
Reference 2001