Re: ? What species is this water iris?
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- Subject: Re: ? What species is this water iris?
- From: C* H* <c*@inlink.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 03:33:16 -0500 (CDT)
At 01:34 AM 8/9/96 -0600, you wrote:
>If the iris has a fleshy red rhizome then it has to be either I. pseudacorus
>or its progeny, i.e. HOLDEN CLOUGH, HOLDEN'S CHILD, ROY DAVIDSON, PHIL
>EDINGER. Since H.C. is suspected of being a child of I. pseudacorus, it may
>have been that the red flesh has been inherited by its progeny. Guess you
>will have to wait until it blooms and then give us its description.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Regards, Dave Silverberg
David and List Members,
I got a shipment of the mystery Irids a few days ago from Donald (thanks
again Don) so let me give you an update on their description.
They have thin lancolet leaves, like a Siberian, up to approx 24" in length
by 3/8" in width at their base; the pink rhizome is in fact a stoloniferious
stem, which travels sub-surface, that appears to be one form of propogation
for the plant and is approx 1/5" in diam, with new leaf sheaths (shoots),
earlier described as orange bands (old sheaths), every 1"; the roots are
thin and branching from the base of the fan, my largest had 9 leaves.
Nothing about this plant reminds me of I. pseudacorus except for the color
in the stolon which does not resemble a rhizome at all. I will be taking
one of the plants with me to the Missouri Botanical Garden today so maybe
they can shed some light on its ID.
Craig Hughes
chughes@inlink.com
St. Louis, MO.
Zone 5
