REB: Bumblebee Delight
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- Subject: REB: Bumblebee Delight
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- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 02:00:24 -0500
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From: Sharon McAllister <73372.1745@compuserve.com>
Mike Greenfield wrote:
>
I posted earlier that I had a rebloom stalk on this Iris. With the weather
as it is here, that stalk will not make it to bloom. I has not shown color
and I did not protectit from freezing. I cut it and cut the bloom open. The
colors were not BBD. I have a miss ID on this one. It did not bloom this
spring.
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Not necessarily mislabeled! Pigments are still developing at that stage.
Dissecting immature buds can be a highly educational experience, but it's
not an effective means of verifying identity.
Buds do get broken off by our spring winds. I started dissecting the ones
from maiden bloom, and got VERY excited about a knocked-off terminal that
hadn't matured enough to show color but on dissection appeared to be true
black -- not a hint of blue or purple, just shiny black. Waited
breathlessly for the later buds to open -- which turned out to be a
nice-but-nothing-special reddish-violet. I've also dissected some that
showed promise of being that elusive white arilbred, but fully developed
flowers had yellow ground.
Sharon McAllister
73372.1745@compuserve.com
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