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I'll print this email and try to answer some of
these questions for you. I'm hoping that another picture will, however,
speak a thousand words. :)
El, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Z3
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Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:38
PM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: I
RUDSKYII
Donald is correct in that if you have the plant growing in hand so to
speak you can write a detailed description of what you have. Much better than
what has been reproduced in books. Things like how tall and wide are the
flowers? How many buds and branches. Are the leaves wide, How wide? are they
pleated? What is the size of the rhizome. These and many more questions are
what a botanist would ask when viewing a wild population. But guess what most
of the time plants are described from single specimens, often that have been
dried first. Just because you have only one plant does not put you at a
disadvantage. Iris variegata has nothing to do with variegated leaves. The
variegata flower pattern of light yellow or white tops and reddish brown or
purplish falls respectively is what we refer to as the variegata pattern in
Iris flowers. I am not sure how the name variegata was chosen for that species
but I suspect it had something to do with the veining at the hafts of the
flower. donald <donald@eastland.net> wrote:
Great
responses on the location for Macedonia! Lots more fun than
having to
look up something I should have been able to remember.
Warm, dry
summers; cold winters with snow cover. Typical favored
clime for median
iris, I should think. I can provide hot, dry
summers, but medians don't
like my mild, temperate winters. Rather
they do like those and grow
beautifully during the winter months, but
I think they believe they are
just having a mild summer. So, when
real summer arrives, they usually
perish. I have managed to locate a
couple of MTBs where they manage
pretty well. I try not to disturb
them lest I break the
spell.
Eleanor is in a position to give so much more information than
either
TWOI or Kohlein. And much more recent. The foliage does not sound
like a variation of I. variegata....does it?
Donald
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