I. dichotoma is definitely a favorite of mine. I've only got the basic
purple garden form, plus a few random Ãnorrisii, most of which are
domestica/Belamcanda type. I don't actually have any pure domestica,
and I lost my '09 SIGNA seedlings to the care of a relative who
overwatered them. Particularly unfortunate was the demise of that nice
red form of domestica. It would have been interesting to cross with a
yellow form, to get a completely unmarked white.
Sean Z
Zone 5b/6a
SE Michigan
Quoting Robert Pries <r*@embarqmail.com>:
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> Sean, Love it!! I have never been good at growing dichotoma but I
> keep trying. A few years ago I got some seedlings from The Missouri
> Botanical garden that were only about a foot or a foot and a half
> tall. They were all white and they had a wide variety of markings.
> the markings were mostly brown or olive in color. It appears we have
> not even seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to variation in
> this species. I wish I could get lots of different ones to grow and
> play with breeding.
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean A. Zera" <z*@umich.edu>
> To: i*@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, February 7, 2011 2:52:46 PM
> Subject: [iris-species] albino vesper iris
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> I happened across this photo of a really spectacularly marked albino
> vesper iris on a Chinese website. It seems to me that other forms I've
> seen photos of have had very pale to nearly nonexistent signals, but
> this one is downright showy.
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> http://www.bjbug.com/plant/htm/pl00059.htm
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> Sean Z
> Zone 5b/6a
> SE Michigan
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