CULT:Irisquestion (was Digest Number 50)
From: John I Jones <jijones@ix.netcom.com>
Francesca R Thoolen wrote:
>
> From: Francesca R Thoolen <IRISGIRL@compuserve.com>
>
> For Henrik Ohrstrom: Henrik if you could download a photograph to us we
> might be able to at least tell you what kind of iris it is.
Francesca is correct that it would be much easier to get started on
identification from a picture, however the way to do that is to send the
picture (either email or snail mail) *privately* to one of us who maintain web
sites and can add the picture to the webpage. Tom Little has a Cyber Cork
Board expressly for this purpose, and I am putting together a page on my site
for "unknowns". Others may also step forward to provide sites.
Using a website to publish a picture is very important resource and early in
the existence of Iris-L Mike Lowe was able to identify THORBECKE from a
picture submitted by Gunnar Anderssen from Sweden.
Mike Lowe wrote:
> From the cork board photo and corroborating evidence, I would give your
> white/purple iris an 80% chance of being THORBECKE (Veitch before 1897).
> Thorbecke is not known to exist in North America and has not been grown as
> such since the 1950s. It was a very popular iris late 1800s/early 1900s but
> fell out of favor in the 1930s and disappeared from collectors gardens.
This process works, at least sometimes, and can be very useful.
John | "There be dragons here"
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