Re: albino vesper iris

 

While we or on the subject of dichotoma, I would really like to know what conditions have worked best for everyone. Old articles suggested that it should be grown in shade but the same article makes me suspect because it also said it was very shortlived. If I remember correctly Jim Waddick found it growing in the wild in short grassland, no trees with near desert conditions. I feel like I have never given it what it really wants but I do not know what that is.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Walkup" <krw25@cornell.edu>
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 7:15:48 AM
Subject: RE: [iris-species] albino vesper iris

 

Sean, Robert, et al,

                I really like dichotoma too; itâs so welcome at the time it blooms.  I also have only the ordinary color, and keep trying to find more interesting colors/patterns.  So, add my name to the chorus pleading for seed donations of special strains.

                Ken

 

From: iris-species@yahoogroups.com [mailto:iris-species@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert Pries
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 3:16 PM
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-species] albino vesper iris

 

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.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean A. Zera" <zera@umich.edu>
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 7, 2011 2:52:46 PM
Subject: [iris-species] albino vesper iris

 

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.

http://www.bjbug.com/plant/htm/pl00059.htm

Sean Z
Zone 5b/6a
SE Michigan

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