Janus Ruksans' book,.Buried Treasures, is a fine tale of planthunting. Seek it out.
AMW
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Zera <zera@umich.edu>
To: iris-species <iris-species@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, May 4, 2013 11:39 am
Subject: Re: [iris-species] Re: I. scariosa
Lake Sevan is also in Armenia, so perhaps they weren't collected very far apart. Certainly 'Sevan' looks like a clone of f.
atrata.
Sean Z
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:23 AM, johnhb67114
<j*@cox.net> wrote:
Hi Sean. Sevan is a clone collected by Janis Ruksans near lake Sevan,
I think that's in Turkey. Leonid's Atrata came from Armenia.
John
PS
I'm thinking of putting some Juno's in the ASI sale.
They are also an arilate section.
--- In i*@yahoogroups.com, Sean Zera <zera@...> wrote:
>
> Is 'Sevan' a distinctive clone of *atrata*, or just a locality? I missed my
> first one last year, but I've got at least one *atrata* bud coming now.
> They seem to be consistently weeks earlier than *paradoxa choschab-* somewhat
> surprising considering they're the same species.
>
> Sean Z
> Zone 6a
> SE Michigan
