Re: SPEC: I. arendia?
From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
Bill,
I'll have to see if I can find out the name of the species. Sandy couldn't
find it in the World of Iris so the judges just decided to accept it. It
was about IB height and dark purple with white crests. The standards and
falls were narrow and the falls pendant.
Maureen Mark
m*@ottawa.com
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4) -- where I have discovered that SAILOR is
WATERDRAGON (a mistake that I certainly don't mind)
> 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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