Re: Tetraploid Iris Pallida?

 

I can't speak to the tertraploid issue, but I'm quite convinced that Dalmatica is not a collected  plant, but a garden plant, That is very likely a pallida seedling, of some sort. It has too  many differences from species.

Chuck Chapman


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Sent: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 12:43 pm
Subject: [iris-species] Tetraploid Iris Pallida?

 
 
Greetings.
 
Has anyone ever run into anything in the literature about what was, or might have been, or what looked like, a natural tetraploid form of Iris pallida?
 
I haven't, nor has Phil Edinger, nor Mike Lowe, but there is a reason for my asking, so I now bring the question to you.
 
It's a long story, but I've got a description here of a nineteeth century plant which was by some considered the same as 'Dalmatica', but a contemporary author whom I consider reliable distinguishes them, so I am wondering.
 
Phil says the spontaneous appearance of a natural tet seedling would be a very rare thing, indeed. 
 
'Dalmatica' has been described in the literature--even by the same writer-- both as a form of I. pallida, and also as a hybrid of that species. This appears to have started with Dykes who, in the course of his career, was inconsistent on the matter.
 
So, has anyone ever seen anything anywhere about a natural tet pallida? I think I recall that Sam Norris made a tet pallida but that would have been through artificial means. 
 
Cordially,
 
AMW
 

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