Peloria

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Peloria (Greek for monster). A term applied to the phenomenon when usually irregular flowers, such as those with some of the petals or sepals spurred or saccate, develop all the parts of each set alike, thus becoming radially symmetrical. The case was observed by Linnseus in Linaria vulgaris, Fig. 2854, and the term peloria was given by him. Flowers often become peloric on account of changes in their relations to light, but other causes certainly contribute. A reverse change, by which radial flowers become zygo- morphic, occurs in many Composite when the corollas of disk- florets become strap- shaped, as in the cultivated asters and chrysanthemums. Some-times, on the contrary,all spurs fail to develop. (Figs. 2855, 2856.) Peloric forms have been of little significance In horticulture. See Keeble, Pellew and Jones on inheritance of peloria in foxgloves, "New Phytologist," Vol. IX, page 68 (1910). CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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