SPEC: Odd Comments

From: "Ian E. & Shirley Efford" <avocet.intl@sympatico.ca>

Thanks for all the suggestions concerning the identifications.  I have
concluded that the plants with very tiny standards are an odd sibirica.
They are certainly not setosa and there seems little else available.
[Anner, I am using all the keys, including the one in the BIS handbook,
however, as with all keys, you must know what you have before they
work!!]

The other one remains a mystery and it may not be resolved for another
year.

I also have had some difficulty with a setosa which, after a great deal
of comparison, I am convinced is a versicolor.  It has just produced a
delightful rose flower in one of the seedlings, which is certainly a
keeper whatever the species!  I will confirm these identifications by
keeping the plants until the pots are fully developed as the pod of
setosa is very egg-like and quite distinct.

Now have a beautiful yellow with black markings chrysographes to go with
my purple/black one.  I recommend both to anyone interested in irises.

All in all, an excellent year for irises with clarkei being one of the
new delights.  Small and delicate, it is very easily identified because
the stem is solid, not hollow.

Talked to Tony Huber.  He has just returned from China but, because he
did not have a collector's permit, without plants.  He is now off to
Calgary and then another trip to Alaska.  He claims it will be next year
before he has any new cultivars.

Ian, in Ottawa where the six fall ensata, Rukugi Sakura has been
flowering for a week.

Dennis, hookeri is the new name for the setosa in Eastern North America

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