Re: Siberian Email Robin
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- Subject: Re: Siberian Email Robin
- From: J* P* <j*@extranet.ru>
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 04:39:21 -0700 (MST)
Mar 03/22/97 16:44, Ian wrote:
> Patricia wrote "North central WA state where siberian iris will not
> grow."
>
> I am facinated to learn why? I know the region reasonably well and it
> seems to me that the climate (zone 6?) is much like the areas or origin
> of siberian irises.
Areas of origin of I.sibirica are very large: not only Europe and Siberia,
Caucasus too, even Trans-Caucasus, in particular Armenia, where many arils
originated.
> May I
> suggest that you try and obtain a copy of "Realms of the Russian Bear"
> by John Sparks 1992. This book is a popular natural history account of
> Russia and the Central Asian Republics. It is a companion volume to a
> BBC documentary series and is very readable with excellent photographs.
> In particular, there is an excellent photo of pseudocorus
> in the Volga delta and of pennsylvanicum from the forests of
> Ussuriland. The latter looks very like the wild laevigata in Currier's
> garden that I saw during the MASS meeting. Anyone know the origin of
> pennsylvanicum? It does not appear in any of the books that I have.
>
How it is like many popular books!
Pensylvanicum, that grow in Ussuriland (Dahuria), is lilium, known as
L. dahuricum.
It is one of historical curiosities.
When this specie got England from Russia mid 17'th, it was seemed to
M.Catsby(?) it is from America, therefore 1804 J. Ker-Gawler described it as
L. pensylvanicum. 1809 he redescribed it as L. dahuricum, and then more 100
years it was known as dahuricum. Now a priority of erroneous name is
reestablished.
I don't know any other pensylvanicum that grow in Siberia.
Juri Pirogov,
jukp@extranet.ru
