pedigree question

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Hi all,

 

I'll be sending this to other forums too, but it sort of involves species Iris, and I thought somebody here might have an answer.

 

I have been trying to track down as many cultivars of pure or potentially pure tetraploid species ancestry as possible (pure being a relative term, any tetraploid TB except I. croatica will do).  Anyway, it's been a slow and confusing process, since many of the parentages appear to be unrecorded, or likely recorded incorrectly.  I know that the SIGNA checklist has a lot of these already, but some of those with uncertain parentage just have to be seen in person to see if I. pallida or I. variegata (the most likely "other" parents) were really involved or not.  Also, I am going beyond the first generation, and anything that does not pull in other species along the way still qualifies.

 

This brings me to my first puzzle. Right off the bat 'Miss Willmott' (is it still growing anywhere?) and 'Kashmir White' are puzzling.  I have not flowered 'Kashmir White' yet, but it looks to be quite likely or pure wild tetraploid ancestry.  If so, the next generation (I've found a few so far) has possibilities too.  I'm assuming no further documentation of their parentage has been found?

 

I'm also curious if the parentage of 'Santa Clara' is known, since it doesn't seem to be in the AIS Checklist?

 

Thanks,

Dave