Re: Iris Identification Request

 

The fine, unbranched vein pattern is the big one for me for tridentata. The signal on tridentata is usually very sharply pointed, like that of ensata. And the style arms are as Dennis describes - tightly pressed to the falls except for the strongly recurved, large, showy tips. The plant in the photo seems to show a dense clumping habit, and the filename says it's in a rock garden growing with candy-lily, both of which also suggest setosa over tridentata. I've never seen a photo of tridentata with purple spathes either, though I'm sure they can exist.

Sean Z


On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Ken Walkup k*@cornell.edu [iris-species] <i*@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

I’ve grown lots of setosas, but only one tridentata.  Setosa seems very plausible to me, although the vein pattern is a little fancy—looks like one Christy Hensler had a while back.  But I would say tridentate is plausible too.  What characteristics would you go on to differentiate?

Ken

 

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I would say setosa. The veining pattern, signal shape and style arms don't look like tridentata to me. Tridentata has that weird pattern of a bunch of fine veins running parallel and not branching much.

 

Sean Z

 

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:11 AM, 'Will Plotner' g*@molalla.net [iris-species] <i*@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Looks more like Iris Tridentata

 

All My Best


Will

 

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Hi all,

 

A SIGNA member asked me to ID this. It looks like setosa to me but I wasn't sure about the apparent branching.

 

Rod

 


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