[PHOTO] Speed limit

Here's a photo of Speed limit.  It put on a nice display this past summer.  I planted it next to City 
light to compare to two.  Speed limit was alot taller, bigger flowers and the beard is not as yellow 
as City lights.  I really like the color of both though.  Will

----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Griffin Crump" <jgcrump@erols.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:30:17 -0500
To: <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: CULT: alien weed - Cuscuta

> Oops -- yeah!  Now that we learn that it PENETRATES the host plant, NO,
> DON'T USE ROUNDUP!  --  Griff
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
> To: "iris photos" <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 12:42 PM
> Subject: [iris-photos] Re: CULT: alien weed - Cuscuta
> 
> 
> > Lots of species of dodder (Cuscuta) are native, some not.  It's related
> > to morning glory, but is parasitic.  Because part of the dodder is
> > <inside> the host plant, just removing the visible part of the dodder
> > <vine> won't get rid of it.
> >
> > I don't know what Roundup and other systemic plant poisons would do -
> > might be translocated from the dodder to the host plant and kill both.
> >
> > Only sure disposal method I know is burning - both dodder and host
> > plant.  Fragments will resprout.
> >
> > I don't remember ever having it in my garden, but see it occasionally
> > out in fields.  The species I've seen must not be too successful - never
> > much of it or in very large patches, & I don't remember seeing it in the
> > same places from year to year.
> >
> > Web surf turned up interesting tidbit that it was used in pre-Columbian
> > times as a dye in Mexico.
> >
> > --
> > Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
> > East Tennessee Iris Society <http://www.korrnet.org/etis>
> > American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
> > talk archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
> > photos archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/>
> > online R&I <http://www.irisregister.com>
> >
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