Re: Registering an Iris
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Registering an Iris
- From: C*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:55:28 -0400
In a message dated 96-04-13 20:49:50 EDT, you write:
>Did you see the previous posting that said that every species of Iris
>known to personhood has already been registered?
Many species have been registered or are the same as registered by being in
the 1939 Check List. But it is important to remember that a given species
can have many, many forms! The most obvious example of the forms a single
species can take the the hundreds of cultivars we call Japanese irises! Each
of these, in reality, is just a form of Iris ensata. There are no other
species involved. As I just typed in a message to Robert Turley, a new white
hexagona collected and verified, would be very important. It would be worth
registering under a cultivar name in my view EVEN THOUGH THE 1939 CHECK LIST
has this entry "HEXAGONA ALBA. Hex-W (Millik., 1931); S. Cal. 1931; R. 1931;
[syn] White Hexagona." To my knowledge the iris registered in the 1939 Check
List no longer exists...it certainly is not available in commerce unless John
Wood in N. Carolina has it. I think this is a very, very important issue,
for the addition of hexagona alba genes to our Louisianas could have great
impact on the breeding of these irises in the future. Clarence Mahan,
Virginia
