SPEC: unidentified iris
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- Subject: SPEC: unidentified iris
- From: C* H* <c*@netcom.ca>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 14:32:08 -0600 (MDT)
I recently received the following e-mail from aperson on the west coast
(Victoria BC area) and was wondering if the learned associates of the
Iris List could help id this iris...
Message was as follows;
I enjoyed your Iris pages very much.I'm not very knowledgable about
irises,
so I wonder if you can help me with a problem of identification.We have
a
small iris known to us only as the `Chinese iris'.It has light yellow
flowers
and fans of dark green leaves never more than one foot long; they tend
to
grow out sideways in a fan-shaped direction.It doesen't seem to be very
hardy, so has always lived in a pot, where it can form quite a long root
system for its small size. I thought it might be Iris forrestii, but
seems
much too small.It is definitely not a bearded type.Do you have any
ideas,
and if so, can you tell me anything about its culture, the type of
growing
conditions it prefers?
Any takers on this? Chris.
--
Christopher Hollinshead
Mississauga, Ontario Canada zone6b
AIS(Region 16), CIS, SSI
Director-Canadian Iris Society
Newsletter Editor-Canadian Iris Society
e-mail: cris@netcom.ca
CIS website: http://www.netcom.ca/~cris/CIS.html
