Actually, I haven't got too much left blooming to use the pollen on. I
tried some on tectorum alba, which seems to be setting pods. I've
collected all the anthers and I'm going to try freezing them for next
year, but if anyone would like some choschab pollen now, let me know.
Sean Z
Quoting Dennis Kramb <d*@badbear.com>:
> Amazing! I grow the native Opuntia, but I had no idea all those
> others could be grown outdoors around here!
>
> Now as for your Iris paradoxa... I hope you're not letting that
> pollen go to waste?? *ahem!*
>
> Dennis in Cincinnati :-)
>
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Sean A. Zera <z*@umich.edu> wrote:
>> I. paradoxa f. choschab is flowering well again this year, and I
>> actually weeded the raised bed, so here's a photo of choschab and its
>> companions.
>>
>> From left to right: Opuntia macrorhiza (prickly-pear), Cylindropuntia
>> ×viridiflora (Santa Fe cholla), Iris paradoxa f. atrata, I. paradoxa
>> f. choschab, Echinocereus triglochidiatus (claret cup). The TB outside
>> the bed behind choschab is 'Sambucina'.
>>
>> The bed was originally built for cacti, but it's rapidly being taken
>> over by oncocyclus irises.
>>
>>
>> Sean Z
>> SE Michigan
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