Re: SPEC: "Minor" arillate species
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SPEC: "Minor" arillate species
- From: D* K*
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 20:05:02 -0500
From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>
>I have grown many of them, with varying degrees of success. I, too, have
>found mislabelling to be a serious problem in acquiring any arillate
>species.
Thank you, Sharon. I much enjoyed reading your history lesson about how
the aril groups have been classified and re-classified over the years.
Very interesting stuff!
>Off the top of my head, I can't think of any arilbreds derived from
>Pseudoregelia species [perhaps someone else will recall an example and
>chime in]. I do know that in its presentation of the new codes the 1976
>Checklist stated "Because of the limited interest in and use of
>pseudoregelias in hybridizing, no provisions for classifications have been
>provided."
So this is rather unexplored territory, right?
According to my "IRIS" book by Fritz Kohlein, there are 6 pseudoregelias:
- Iris goniocarpa (Baker)
- Iris hookeriana (Foster)
- Iris kamaonensis (Wallich)
- Iris potaninii (Meximowicz)
- Iris sikkimensis (Dykes)
- Iris tigridia (Bunge)
From previous Iris-Talk conversations about a year ago I seem to recall
that Iris sikkimensis has not officially been recorded as being collected
from the wild. So that leaves 5 species to work with.
Any ideas on whether these are in cultivation in North America or Europe?
or how I might otherwise possibly obtain them? Since they are all so
small, it seems like a natural choice to cross with MDBs. Of course
there's the ploidy problem, but why worry about that until you've conquered
the tasks of (#1) obtaining specimens, and (#2) cultivating them.
Is anybody a member of NARGS? Does NARGS offer these seeds in their seed sale?
Dennis Kramb; dkramb@badbear.com
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
http://www.badbear.com/dkramb/home.html
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