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Re: Dietes flavida [2 Attachments]

 


Here are a couple of photos of a stalk of a Dietes hybrid. I'm not sure that they precisely show what David describes, but in the wide shot you can see sockets of three distinct ages - fresh green, browned, and grayed. I don't remember trimming this stalk, so I think these represent 3 years worth of bloom. In the close up you can see what looks like a new branch forming, and you can clearly see where one branch has died.

Rod

From: "David Ehrlich idavide@sbcglobal.net [iris-species]" <iris-species@yahoogroups.com>
To: "iris-species@yahoogroups.com" <iris-species@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-species] Dietes flavida

 
I don't have any photos, but I some years ago, I was writing a description of the Iris inflorescence.  Here is the paragraph I wrote about Dietes --

The inflorescence of Dietes is similar except that the Iris scape lasts only one blooming season then dies, while that of Dietes lasts several seasons, bearing flowers from new terminal rhipidia (on new branches) each year.  The Dietes branches bear subterminal bracts and it is from the axils of these that new flowering branches arise; the old terminal segments die.

David E



From: "Chuck Chapman irischapman@aim.com [iris-species]" <iris-species@yahoogroups.com>
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-species] Dietes flavida

 
Any photographs of this?

Chuck Chapman




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