Re: Oriental Beauty (and judging shows)
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Oriental Beauty (and judging shows)
- From: B* S*
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:58:56 -0400
From: Bill Shear <BILLS@hsc.edu>
>There was also a species I. arendia? of which none of the judges were
>familiar.
Could this have been I. arenaria (now a synonym of I. humilis)?-- was it a
yellow dwarf iris? "arenaria" is the only thing in the species manual that
is even close to "arendia." Iris humilis is reputedly very hard to grow,
despite a wide geographic range from SE Europe to Mongolia.
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@hsc.edu>
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