I only knew of the robustas as having dark stems and purple spring foliage, too, Christie. But I assumed you would know better than I. Thank you.
Well, my iris is definitely a robusta then. And it's definitely the same iris from two different sources. Oh well, one of those things that will never get solved.
BTW, my Loophole was lovely last year:)
--- In i*@yahoogroups.com, "Christy Hensler" <hensler@...> wrote:
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> Hi Polly,
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> As far as I know, the only irises with dark stems and purple spring foliage are the X robustas. I've never seen an LA with such coloring.
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> I have noticed that a lot of registrations for hybrids seem include guesses as to which parent species might be involved.
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> Christy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Polly
> To: i*@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 5:49 PM
> Subject: [iris-species] Re: Gerald Darby ?
>
>
> Hi Christy!
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> I am not very familiar with LAs. Are there some that have the dark red stems, and purple spring foliage.
>
> That is what Gerald Darby was first registered as. A LA cross.
>
