Re: Tigridia pavonia
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- Subject: Re: Tigridia pavonia
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:42:48 -0700 (MST)
> Tigridia pavonia hybrids are very inexpensive corms (not bulbs) which
> produce beautiful summer-flowering plants. They aren't very iris-like to
> my eyes, more resembling a small gladiolus in the foliage. The flowers,
> 5-6" across, have three large and three small petals and are basically
> bowl-shaped, held upright on the stalks.
>>>>>Hmmm, maybe my imagination is running away with me, but I am looking
at the pictures I took last summer of tigridia. I see falls and tiny
little standards.
Shades of red and yellow
> predominate, and the petals are marked at the base with large dark red
> spots. An 'Immaculata'train is sometimes available; they lack the
> spots. They flower for a long period but each flower lasts only a day.
>
>>>I also have cream and pink selfs, but the prettiest is white
with pink splotches, a real knock-out.
They did not grow as a spike but had leaves arching downward like
a siberians.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS
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