Re: Prairie Iris Article Crossing Species

 

I have been distracted lately trying to fix a problem with the Iris Encyclopedia so I hope I am not saying something that has already been said. Iris lactea has not been tried with many other species in hybridizing. But Charles Jenkins who was geneticist and hybridizer of spuria irises tried it with the spurias. He got very strange results and if it would be anyone but him, few would have believed it, The first generation he got plants that looked no different than the lactea he used. But Charles did an F2 and to his surprise resulted in many of the seedlings being twins out of the same seed. Each twin produced one plant that looked like the lactea and one that looked like the spuria. Charles was a very meticulous scientist and I believe his results but they are certainly remarkable.

If you want to know what things a species has been crossed with there is two sources you can go to. The later SIGNA checklists listed all croses with a species and the Iris Encyclopedia has all of this information also. Much is not formatted well, because I have not finished with all that work, but it is all there I think.
----- Original Message -----
From: gardenersfriend@sasktel.net
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 1:04:27 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-species] Prairie Iris Article

 

Hello El,
Did you come up with a list of what will cross with it?  I have always wanted to try crossing it with I. missouriensis which it kind of resembles.  In truth I think it is worth trying to cross it with anything really.  I does set seed quite easily and if you wanted to make sure of a wide cross you would have to protect the cross. 
I think BJâs poem has a lot of truth in it for the prairies â cold tonight.
Jim
 
From: e*@mymts.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:25 AM
To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-species] Prairie Iris Article
 
 

Morning Jim and all.
 
It took me a few minutes to recall which magazine article you're talking about.  I do now remember reading that about lactea in your article.  You could always get the editor to post one of those corrections.
 
Interesting that you mentioned lactea though, as just yesterday I was trying to figure out what crosses with it.  I got an OP seed pod off mine this past fall, but I'm pretty sure there was only 1 bloom stalk this year.  Perhaps it crossed with itself.
 
El, Ste Anne, MB Z3
 
From: g*@sasktel.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:27 AM
To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [iris-species] Prairie Iris Article
 
 

To all of you who may have read my article I hope you can forgive me for mistakenly putting Iris lactea in the Spuria group.  I misread a description of this Iris which lead to such a result.  I was hoping someone would take some editing license with the article.
Jim in Saskatoon

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