Re: SPEC: unidentified iris

Christopher 

The best way to find out if it is innominata is to look at the picture
on Rodney's website.  He shows the yellow one. 

http://molly.hsc.unt.edu/~rbarton/Iris/NANI.html

I notice that tenax also has a yellow variation, so if it is a PCI, then
it could be another species than innominata.

I should correct my previous message in that the leaves of my specimens
are about a foot high, not as I said one and a half feet.  For a moment,
I had confused it with a Moraea, which I grow in pots side-by-side with
the innominata.  

As an aside, despite the fact that PCIs are thought to be ungrowable
this far north, I have tenax growing well.  This plant came from seed
planted in 1994 and it overwintered this year.  It has not yet flowered
but it seems to confirm my idea that at the edge of the natural
distribution, or beyond, plants may become established if grown from
seed.  I should note that the temperature last night was just above
freezing.

Finally, on an earlier e-mail I asked for help in finding additional
seeds of cycloglossa as the ones that SIGNA (96W451) look quite poor.  I
did not get an response but out of five seeds, I already have four
seedlings that are over 4 inches tall.  I feel that these are my prize
plants of the year so that if anyone has advice as to how to raise them
successfully, I would be pleased to receive all the help that I can
get.  This is a species that has only been seen a couple of times in the
wild and should be very interesting to raise.

Ian
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