Re: Random Thoughts, Questions
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- Subject: Re: Random Thoughts, Questions
- From: A* R* <a*@austx.tandem.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 07:51:05 -0700 (MST)
> I. tigridia and tigridia sold in the catalogs and stores are not
> the same. Dykes shows a rhizome with lots of roots, and what I buy as
> trigridia is a bulb. Does anybody know how this nomenclature can apply to
> two obviously different plants? What is further confusing, on the
> packaging information, VanZyverden calls them iris-like plants. Whatever
> they are, tigridia blooms are fantastic and particularly welcomed in June
> and July when they bloom.
Tigridia pavonia is indeed a bulb with a summer bloom. It's also
called Mexican shellflower, among other things. Though it wouldn't
surprise me if it were an irid, I don't think it's ever been in the Iris
species. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, zone 8b
*or* amyr@mpd.tandem.com
Jill O. *Trades, Mistress O. {}
