Re: The Iris Family Natural History and Classification

 

Janos, that was the first book I bought!  Actually I think it was a Christmas present given to me shortly after I got hooked on irises.  I've purchased a couple more books since then, but I always considered Kohlein's the best (of my collection).  These days I'm deeply intrigued about tropical American irids, and I thought this new book might cover them.  But if it's South African focused, then I'm probably not interested.

So that's another thing that started bothering me recently.  There are *SO* *MANY* tropical American irids.  Yet the distribution map of irids in Africa clearly shows NONE in the tropical rainforests of Africa (but they exist north, south, and west of the jungle).  That's illogical to me.  I wonder what happened to them?  Anyway...... just a rhetorical question.

Thanks for the feedback, everybody!
Dennis in Cincinnati


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