Re: Iris Evansia
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Iris Evansia
- From: C*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 17:55:23 -0400
In a message dated 96-05-01 00:53:56 EDT, you write:
> It was a rather short clump of strappy leaves, forming a nest from which
>arose very wiry and gracefully curved scapes which were topped by a small
>white flower, laid open like a tiny Japanese Iris. The scape reminded me of
>crocosmia.
>
>Does this help? Is it tenuis?
>
>Kathy
Kathy...I think what you saw was a South African iris...I saw it too. The
flower was like Iris laevigata. But I don't know which irid it was.
Clarence Mahan in VA