Re: RE:HYB: Pallida

DFerguson@cabq.gov wrote:
The only thing I might disagree with Neil on is the height of the plants.
I have several I. pallida clones that never get to 30 inches for me, in
fact they often don't make 24 inches, but otherwise they are just smallish
I. pallida. I should add that in my growing conditions, even the biggest
I. pallida don't often make 30 inches, but they come close. Under other
conditions, my shorties might be a lot taller?

In my garden ODORATISSIMA has only reached 31", but I. pallida variegata (ZEBRA) reaches 37" and I. pallida pallida has reached 42".


For instance the "pallida" parent of 'Paltec' wasn't
a pallida at all, but a pallida/variegata intermediate (can't remember
which cultivar off hand though, just the fact).

The 1939 Checklist lists EDINA (Lemon, 1840) as the bearded parent of PALTEC. EDINA's color coded description is "W3", which equates to an amoena with blue-toned falls, which would tend to confirm a variegata component in its background.

Below is a list of pallida cultivars I sent to the Iris species group about
a year ago. 

Oriflamme 


The list from Randolph's "Chromosome Numbers in Garden Varieties of Iris" posted on the HIPS website credits ORIFLAMME with a tetraploid chromosome count of 48.



Jeff Walters
in northern Utah
(USDA Zone 4)
		
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