Re: HYB: JI X SIB hybrids
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: JI X SIB hybrids
- From: E* G*
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:21:23 -0500
From: Ellen Gallagher <e_galla@moose.ncia.net>
Andy Wheeler wrote:
> As far a using Rose Queen, I don't feel as though that is problematic,
>it is clearly a Japanese iris, the initial registration problem was a
>taxonomy issue which has clearly been straitened out.
Since I mentioned this as an aside in my letter re this subject,
I will quote part of a post I wrote today to a list member which
speaks to this, I hope:
>I never said that Rose Queen was not a JI and it surely is a single
>(3 fall) looking like a Japanese iris species. To my eye anyway.
>My point in offering my thoughts (muddled and hasty) were:
>I was just (I thought) offering information. (snip - private ramblings)
>..... use at least the recognized identified species:
>series Sibericae (both subseries Sibericae which includes 3 species and
>subseries Chrysographes which inclues 8 species) x series Laevigatae
>(which includes I. ensata as well as I. laevigata, I. pseudacorus,
>I. versicolor and I. virginica).
The above are just examples of what I was thinking about when
I wrote my primary post.
>I don't know the history of Rose Queen and Lilley's intro. of it in
>1915 but it surely does fall in the "series" Laevigatae altho it is
>I. ensata not I. laevigata, without a doubt.
Ellen
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Ellen Gallagher / e_galla@ncia.net
Northern New Hampshire, USA / Zone 3
Berlin, NH in 'The Great North Woods'
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