Re: I. pallida cengialtii?

Some seeds were on the SIGNA list this year. They may have some left. I got mine.

I may be able to get some wild collected seed from Croatia. Will keep people posted.

I too would be interesteed in a properly identified clone.

Chuck Chapman

"skyland 1" <lmmunro@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Dave:
>   I will get that other picture to you, but I am sure it is not right. In 
>fact, I now recall we were making somewhat of an issue about it about 2 
>years ago at Presby that it  was too modern looking for that time period and 
>had to be misnamed.  I notice that Winterberry is selling Tid-Bit this year, 
>in case you were interested in a commercial source.
>Talking about sources for iris, do you know where  I could get a piece of I. 
>Cengialti?
>Thanks,
>Laetitia
>
>>From: "David Ferguson" <manzano57@msn.com>
>>Reply-To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
>>To: <iris-species@yahoogroups.com>
>>Subject: Re: [iris-species] 'Tid-bit' - I. pallida cengialtii?
>>Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:01:07 -0600
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Thanks for all the comments.
>>
>>Laetitia,
>>
>>The photo was really helpful.  There is enough detail between the flowers 
>>shown for me to get a fairly good idea what the plant looks like.  I'll do 
>>some more detailed comparing with clones of I. pallida cengialtii, but this 
>>really does look as though it may be another clone of that taxon.  It would 
>>be great to find some history for the plant.  It might help shed a lot of 
>>light on just what it really is to know where it was from (beyond 
>>introducer and date).
>>
>>I lot of MTB's look as if they have cengialtii in their background, but it 
>>isn't always clear from the pedigrees (there are so many numbered seedlings 
>>that were never introduced, and which appear to not have documentation 
>>available - maybe there are breeder notes buried here and there).  Anyway, 
>>this clone looks like maybe another pathway for cengialtii genes to have 
>>gotten into the breeding lines.
>>
>>Now to hunt down a piece and grow it!
>>
>>By the way, I'd be curious to see the other photo.  Even if it may be 
>>wrong, it would be fun to see what it looks like.
>>
>>Thanks again,
>>
>>Dave
>
>
>

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