Re: Emailing: NS 128 card 022

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• Subject: Re: [iris-species] Emailing: NS 128 card 022
• From: Kenneth Walker k*@astound.net
• Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:13:45 -0700
• References: 6.2.1.2.2.20050804074653.01ed9048@postoffice9.mail.cornell.edu

Thanks for the information about I. hookerii. I had imagined that they 
grew in swamps!
Also, I'm now less doubtful about the ones I grew from seed that produce 
some branches.

Ken Walker

Ken Walkup wrote:

>	At the convention in Hamilton a couple years ago, I had a conversation 
>with Tony Huber about hookerii.  He described its habitat as crevices in 
>rock near the ocean, where it subsists mostly on sea spray and fog.  That's 
>just the way I found it.  The attached photo shows a few fans growing out 
>of a crevice at one of the roadside pull-offs along the Atlantic side of 
>the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton Highlands Nat. Park.  The photo is of 
>foliage only, bloom was finished by then (about July 25).  The little blue 
>flower is a campanula I saw a lot of too.
>	There were lots and lots of clumps all over the granite headland, growing 
>maybe 30 or 40 feet above the high water line, but clearly within the zone 
>where storms must occasionally splash salt water.  Most of the bloom stalks 
>I saw showed evidence of two flowers, but stalks with a branch were not 
>uncommon.
>
>  
>




 
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