Re: setosa surprise :
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- Subject: Re: [iris-species] setosa surprise :
- From: Laurie Frazer l*@localnet.com
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:32:42 -0500
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On Sep 12, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Ellen Gallagher wrote:
I sometimes put stalks with seed pods in a pail of water (2 inches or so) to ripen because of our early frost (we just missed frost yesterday with morning temps of 34 F degrees (about 1 C). The seed pods ripened nicely but I just didn't take the stalks out of the water.
I pulled out the two stalks and one had grown nice fresh roots and one had this:
This is my little Iris setosa:
Holy moly, Ellen! If ever I've seen a reason NOT to snap off spent bloomstalks, that's it! I wonder if any other type of iris, beardless or bearded, does the same thing. Is that "our" setosa?
Laurie
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