Re: Iris seeds and birds

Mark,

This is a fabulous web site.
Thanks!

Darlene Moore


On 1/11/2014 11:44 AM, Mark Cook wrote:
> All I found was this paragraph from this site
> http://flower-iris.ru/en/knigi-pro-iridariy/zaglyanut-v-knigu/59/
>
> "The resumption of the genus Iris populations is due to seed and 
> vegetative propagation. Iris seeds can be spread by water, wind, ants, 
> birds and various animals. Thus, the distribution of seeds and fruits 
> of most species of the subgenus Limniris happens with water. They 
> nonwetting epidermis and pneumatic cavities. There are species that 
> are distributed ballistic seed dispersal, ie species which boxes to 
> erect stems crack at the top and fall on the ground only when 
> swinging. So spread easily because in bristle and winged seeds because 
> of the Siberian. Types of sections Onkotsiklyus (Oncocyclus), and 
> Psammiris (Psammiris), the seed of which develops a fleshy appendage, 
> distributed, probably ants. Vegetative propagation is due to iris 
> rhizomes."
>
> Mark A. Cook
> Dunnellon, Florida USA
> AHS Region 12 USDA Zone 8b
> 



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