Re: beards?
- Subject: Re: [iris-photos] beards?
- From: K* W*
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 14:46:52 -0700
Hi Dennis,
I was suprised by your pictures of a "beard" on a louisiana iris.
I knew that I. virginica has a few hairs on the its falls.
I checked some of my references; both I. brevicaulis and
I. giganticaerullea are described as having a pubescent median
ridge on their falls! It would be interesting to know if any of
the hybrids picked up that characteristic.
Ken
Dennis Kramb wrote:
> Iris brevicaulis is still blooming in my garden. As I was collecting
> pollen to freeze & save for next year I noticed the signal patch was
> fuzzy with hairs. All my other LAs have ceased to bloom so I have no
> way to know if they are all like that, or if this is unique to this
> species/clone. Iris tridentata is also still in bloom so I
> double-checked that one but its signals are perfectly smooth - no
> hairs of any kind - not even small ones.
>
> My first impulse was to self it, thinking that I could selectively
> breed for this and develop a bearded class of Louisianas. In
> retrospect it sounds like a terrible notion. A bearded LA? Well,
> I'll keep going and maybe in a couple decades I'll let you know how
> it's going. <G>
>
> I used my scanner to capture some images of the furry little guy. I
> took lots of other images if you want to see it at different angles.
>
> Any ideas???
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[PHOTO] beards?