Re: SPEC: Intergeneric hybrids
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SPEC: Intergeneric hybrids
- From: H*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 20:51:25 EST
From: HIPSource@aol.com
In a message dated 1/3/00 7:54:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jcwalters@bridgernet.com writes:
<< KOOTENAY. Sib-B1L (Preston 1932); Rept. Dom. Hort. 63. 1928; (Sibirica
maxima X SNOW QUEEN): Kellogg 1932; Rowan. 1938.
(Note: This is a straight 28-chromosome Siberian cross, so presumably it is
the cultivar identification of the Siberian parent and not the hybrid
offspring).>>
Not as I read the page. Page 528 gives KOOTENAY as the result of the cross I.
siberica x I. pseudacorus, HOWEVER, it is a linear table with the name of the
resultant garden iris given far to the right of the sequentially listed
crosses. The cross listed above this one is I.siberica x I. orientalis, so
that it is conceivable that KOOTENAY was listed below the others from this
cross and as a continuation thereof. Arguing against this is the lack of a
comma following the last name in the I. siberica x I. orientalis name group,
and the fact that there is plenty of room to list KOOTENAY on that line.
Someone with this book please take a look and see what you think.
<< TRUE BLUE . Sib-B1D (Fry. 1919); Fry. 1919; Hubbard 1928; Cherry 1936.
(Query: Is this the supposed hybrid or the cultivar identity of the Siberian
parent?)>>
TRUE BLUE listed on page 532 as the named hybrid of I. spuria X I. siberica.
MRS. H. R. MOORE Spur-W4 (Fry-Jr. 1928) Fry. Nur. 1928; Wayman 1932; 1939;
(SPURIA AUREA X orientalis).
(Note: "orientalis" was the 1939 Checklist designation of the species
currently known as I. sanguinea; the spuria species that has been called I.
orientalis is designated I. ochroleuca in the '39 Checklist, but is the
usage consistent in this entry, or could this be a straight spuria
hybrid?).>>
Garden Irises (p. 531) gives it I. aurea x I. orientalis. I. orientalis
itself is listed in its expected place in the Series Sibericae. I. ochroleuca
is listed in the Spuriae, as is I. aurea. The change in the name from I.
ochroleuca Linn. to I. orientalis Miller is referred to in the BIS book as
'recent', a relative term, but it the species was still I. ochroleuca in WOI.
The 1932 Wayman's catalog, which I have here beside me, includes her among
the Spurias and says " A cross between Aurea Species and Orientalis Gigantea,
producing flowers at least one third larger than Aurea, taller and of more
rugged growth. Color white, the standards suffused yellow and the falls
having a bright yellow central area. Very handsome." Orientalis is grouped
with the Siberians.
Anner Whitehead
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