RE: Re: I RUDSKYII

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The reason Yugoslavia was given is that Macedonia was part of Yugoslavia before it broke up into smaller countries. A husband and wife team of Yugoslavian botanists described and named Iris rudskyi and of course their last name is the part of the species name that people forget to write, Horvath. I believe the original description which I have seen was extensive but in Croatian. Western botanists have a tendency to lump several of these and similar species all under Iris variagata, but they are distinctive. Nonetheless all should grow under pretty typical MTB culture. The reason they are rare is not because they are impossible to grow but because much of the area they live in has been having small European tribal wars. Collecting in the wild could be interesting especially while trying to avoid the land mines.

Char Holte <cholte@wi.rr.com> wrote:

Hi,

Macedonia

is east of Germany and south of Poland in Europe.

Char, New Berlin WI

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Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: I RUDSKYII

donald <donald@eastland.net> wrote:

............ Where Macedonia is geographically escapes me
at the moment and I haven't tried to look it up. 

 

Alexander the Great was son of Phillip of Macedonia.  Phillip got the Macadonian tribes together and left it to his young son, Alex age about17.  Al went into Greece, from the north if I remember (I was very young) and while not conquering Greece, he took sides in every inter-city dispute and ended up being in charge.  With Greece and Macedonia as his base, he then conquered Persia.  Then he conquered about everything else in the neighborhood, India, northern Africa, etc, until he died at the age of 35 or so.

Anyway, it seems Maceonia is still more or less to the north of Greece.

Walter

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