Re: SIB: Blue Emperor
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SIB: Blue Emperor
- From: h*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:34:39 EST
From: hipsource@aol.com
In a message dated 2/27/00 9:14:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
redear@infinet.com writes:
<< Can anyone give me some info on this one. I bought it at a local nursery.
>>
Michael, hi.
I don't have any registrations beyond 1989 and someone may indeed have used
that name recently in which case I'm sure someone else will pop up with that
information for you.
But I did check and did not find a BLUE EMPEROR. What I did find in the 1939
Check List was EMPEROR, a collected blue form of 'I. orientalis', which in
this case means today's I. sanguinea, a Siberian species.
The Check List says it was collected by Barr and named by Wallace, meaning
the English nursery. The 1922 Wallace catalog, available in as a nice reprint
from your friendly neighborhood HIPS, says 'A noble form of Orientalis, of
Japanese origin. the falls are large and circular and the whole flower is a
deep violet blue. 3ft."
Just in case this is info seems relevant.....
Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com
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