Re: Re: Kansas City National - Spec & Spec-X #5

Hi Brock,  I checked out the links.  Very interesting, thank you.  Too bad I didn't know to smell it.  The SIGNA page says it smells like plums.  Check out the email from Jim Murrain.  He says there were two other spuria species blooming in his yard.  And I missed them!  But his place was fantastic.  So many plants I have not seen before.

I'll look in my old copies of the Spuria News for more info.  I do remember an article on the breeding of the dward SPUs. 

Have a good day and happy irising.

Jan

From: eroctuse2 <EROCTUSE2@aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 9:10:51 AM
Subject: [iris-photos] Re: Kansas City National - Spec & Spec-X #5

Hi Jan,

Really, that is what I've heard. :)

I first learned of it in JT with Dave Niswonger and in the Morris garden during the St. Louis convention. There are dwarf SPU and some hybridizers are even breeding modern versions (of course, now I can't think of who, but they've talked about them in the "Spuria News").

Here's the SIGNA page on I. graminea:
http://www.badbear. com/signa/ signa.pl? Iris-graminea

and here it is on the SIS site:
http://www.spuriairis.com/spuria_i_-_l.htm

You really did find two SPUs.

Someday I'd like to grow it and see if I could get any crosses out of it, but I've been told that there are some ploidy issues in the SPU species realms.

Brock

--- In i*@yahoogroups.com, Jan Lauritzen <janicelauritzen@ ...> wrote:
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> Brock,
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> I didn't know it was in the spuria group. It was only about 2 inches across and about 12 inches tall. Maybe we can check and be sure.
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> Thanks, Jan
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