Re: small SIB seedling

Ken and Sean,

Yes, I remember ordering and planting seeds from 2 or 3 older well known
named Siberian irises along with some Siberian species seeds (all from
SIGNA exchange about 10 years ago) in part of a row where my tall small
yellowish clump now grows.

I searched for photos of Snow Prince descendents and prescedents on the
internet. There were several that looked or sounded somewhat similar in
description to my small SIB seedling.

If I wanted to encourage this tall, small flowered trait in further
crosses, are there some particular tall, small flowered species sibirica
strains or clones, or do species sibirica in general carry some of this
tall, small flowered trait? Or are there other named diploid Siberian
iris that have this influence?

Sean, you mentioned liking 'the tall, small flowered siberians.' What or
where are some other tall, small SIBs? I can't seem to find examples by
searching the net from several approaches.

Thanks for your help,

Dan Mason    zone 3, NW, ON, Canada


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On 7/6/2015 3:59 PM, Ken Walkup krw25@cornell.edu [iris-species] wrote:
> Dan and Sean, The iris in this photo looks like it could be a
> seedling from Snow Prince, the I. sibirica cv, or one of its
> descendants.  There is also a sibirica called Enid Burgoyne that has
> a somewhat creamy color.  But Snow Prince was popular and
> influential, and I know seed was in the exchange a lot.  The
> description of the clump as tall, with small flowers, is like
> sibirica. So, it's true that there are no screaming yellow species
> in the 28 chromosome Siberians, but irises as yellow as the one in
> the photo are out there. Ken


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