El,
I've always been warned, but never had it. I've been importing a
lot of iris plants over the last couple of years and take it I
picked it up from an otherwise healthy looking rhizome. I need to
learn more about viruses in general, just which ones attack which
plants. We all live happily with tulip break viris, as it doesn't
kill the plants or make them unsightly. I wonder if global warming
has any effect on their distribution? Probably indirectly, via
their vectors; aphids and company.
I did buy some Muscari macrocarpum last year that have all come up
virused! I have them in a pot, thus isolated, and hope to get some
seed. Seed is where it's at! For species, anyway.
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Jamie V.
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Köln (Cologne)
Germany
Zone 8
Am 15.04.2011 14:08, schrieb Eleanor Hutchison:
Sorry about the virus, Jamie. I
don't think I've ever seen it on an iris, just on a friend's
lily.
El, Ste Anne, Manitoba, Canada Z3
From: j*@freenet.de
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 5:48 AM
To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-species] Iris albicans
Mark,
this is one iris I can't keep going. It likes it hotter and drier than I can really offer. Funny, as I have good success with aril types, but i do tend to pamper them, despite trying to give them a hard time. if a plant wants to hang out in my garden, just great, but over pampering doesn't make for 1) easy gardening and 2) good plants for hybridising.
My first buds are appearing on TBs, meds and arils. Unfortunately, I am seeing virus on more than a few plants. Hate it!!! Isolate and incinerate time.
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Jamie V.
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Köln (Cologne)
Germany
Zone 8
