Re: SPEC: Iris varbossiana Maly

Hi,

I. varbossiana (at least the ones I have) are 48 chromosome TB's, and the 
plants look almost identical to 'Amas', except they are a bit taller. 
Also, they are fertile.  The TB's coming out of nw. Greece, s. Czech 
Republic, and some areas of Turkey as "I. germanica" all seem to be the 
same thing, and 'Amas' is the same type of plant.  They differ from the 
more southerly plants (trojana, cypriana, mesopotamica, etc.) in several 
details.  None of these plants fits into the strict sense of I. x 
germanica very well, they are quite different things.  My opinion inclines 
toward lumping all the Near Eastern and se. European TB 48 chromosome 
plants of this type into I. trojana, but the southern and northern are 
different enough that I would hesitate.  This does not include things like 
I. imbricata, I. chroatica, I. junoniana, etc.

More later, after I have time to do some digging for data at home.


Dave

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