Re: SIGNA 13SP221

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I'm usually the person who donates seeds of Iris xanthospuria to SIGNA. See photo:

http://www.signa.org/index.pl?Display+Iris-xanthospuria+1

My plants came from seeds collected in Turkey. I usually hand pollinate different clones. My tallest clone was dying out but last year I transplanted a couple rhizomes that still seem healthy.

Ken

 

It's definitely possible, although xanthospuria was also offered that year. I hope I'll have xanthospuria from another lot blooming to compare. 

R

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From: "Kenneth Walker k*@astound.net [iris-species]" i*@yahoogroups.com
To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 1, 2016 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-species] SIGNA 13SP221

 

I'd expect Iris xanthospuria to have deep orange-yellow blooms with much broader flower parts; in my limited experience, the blade of the fall is rather vertical and curls under a bit. Iris spuria subsp. halophila can have pale yellow flowers. Is there any chance that is what you have?

Ken Walker
Concord, CA USA
USDA Zone 9

On 4/1/2016 4:51 PM, Rodney Barton r*@yahoo.com [iris-species] wrote:

 

Hi all,

It's an early season here. There are several things in the species beds are blooming, including this that I have labeled 13SP221. The poblem is that it should be I. notha but it appears to be xanthospuria. 3 different seedlings are blooming and all are yellow (2) or white (1). Anyone else have seedlings from this seed lot?

R