Incremental Hybridizing. "How many generations did it take to produce that"

If we took a Dykes Medal Winner How many generation is it from the Species?

In galleries below; each iris to the right of the one before is one of the parents showing change from generation to generation

'Football Hero' the 2022 Dykes Medal Winner

'Football Hero'	'Hoosier Dome'	'Startled'	'Howdy Do'
'Actress'	'Fond Wish'	'Rippling Waters'	'Helen McGregor
'Purissima'	'Argentina'	Iris mesopotamica

'Football Hero' is 10 generations removed from the species

'Daring Deception' a 2021/20 Dykes Medal Winner

'Daring Deception'	'By Jeeves'	'Gypsy Geena'	'Pharaoh's Spirit'
'Plume D'Or'	'Dance Man'	'Speculator'	'Well Endowed'
seedling# 71-79W	'New Moon'	'Moon River'	'Nuxed Emotions'
'Azure Skies'	'Snowking'	'Oriana'	'Lady Foster'
Iris Cypriana

'Daring Deception is 17 generations from a species

'Reckless Abandon' a 2021/20 Dykes Medal Winner

'Reckless Abandon'	Blyth seedling L304-1,	'Pirate Ahoy'	'Snowed In'
'Romantic Evening'	seedling 88-215:	'Witches Wand'	'Tomorrow's Child'
'Lisa Ann'	'Snow Peach'	'Latin Lover'	No named Seedling
'Whole Cloth'	'Cahokia'	Faught seedling# 4E1	'Purissima'
'Argentina'	Iris mesopotamica

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'Reckless Abandon' is 17 generations from a species

'Bottle Rocket the 2019 Dykes Medal Winner

'Bottle Rocket'	Seedling# S-702-A:	'Connie Sue'	Seedling# G-19
'sweet Musette'	Seedling# M 797-1:	'Sandberry'	'Kingdom'
seedling# 57-28	'Waxing Moon'	Fay seedling#	'sunray'
'Floradora'	'Clara Noyes'

'Bottle Rocket' is at least 14 generations from species and likely about 17 generations but no data after 'Clara Noyes' note last pod parent recorded was 'Aprodite' from 1922

'Haunted Heart' the 2018 Dykes Medal Winner

'Haunted Heart'	Blyth seedling# N48-X	'Royal sterling'	'Vienna Waltz'
'Social Event'	Gatty seedling# M8-2A	'Pretty Lady'	'Bonbon'
'Princess'	'Ruffled Valentine'	'May Hall'	'Dolly Varden'
'Courtier'

'Montmartre' 2017 Dykes Medal Winner Ancestry

'Montmartre'	'High Masrer'	'Fancy Woman'	seedling# 85-15C
'Goddess'	Seedling# 72-30C:	'Apricot Blaze'

See also SDBs

PCNs

-- BobPries - 12 Feb 2019