Yes, diploid, Here is a useful resource for older cultivars.
AMW
. Ploidy
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Zera <zera@umich.edu>
To: iris-species <iris-species@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, May 27, 2013 9:30 am
Subject: Re: [iris-species] TBs (and mystery cultivar)
Thanks! This plant is indeed very glaucous and without purple-based foliage. The color really does stand out. As a probable diploid I'll try crossing it with some species oncos -
urmiensis and
paradoxa f.
choschab will be blooming shortly.
Sean Z
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:40 AM,
<C*@aol.com> wrote:
Quite possibly Vilmorin's 'Caprice'. This iris is known for the strong grape fragrance, and bluish beard. It is a handsome sort, with, as I recall, distinctly glaucous foliage. My records show no purple staining to the foliage bases of 'Caprice' as grown here. I think it is a stunner. Scatter a few of these small brightly colored tailored selfs in with one's complex cutting edge moderns and a bed really comes to life.
Austin W. W. Sand in his Bearded Iris: A Perennial Suited to all Gardens (Cornell Extension Bulletin 112 ( 1925) gives a date of 1904, but the 1939 AIS Check List gives the date as 1898, and identifies that as the seedling year. One of the synonyms is "Abeille Merveilleuse."
AMW
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Zera <z*@umich.edu>
To: iris-species <i*@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, May 26, 2013 10:24 am
Subject: [iris-species] TBs (and mystery cultivar)
Looks like
none of my modern TBs are going to bloom this year, probably a combination of last year's drought and no weeding. The species beardeds and heirlooms don't seem to care, though!
Anyone know what this cultivar might be? It was a passalong simply described as "grape-scented iris". Looks and smells like pallida, but is bright red-purple, maybe 1/2 to 3/4 the height of typical garden pallida and with smaller flowers.
Sean Z
Zone 6a
SE Michigan
