Re: SPEC : Info needed please
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- Subject: Re: SPEC : Info needed please
- From: H*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:17:56 EDT
From: HIPSource@aol.com
Greetings again.
I, paraphrasing the BIS species book published in 1997, wrote
<< >Re: I. sikkimensis: Although Dykes formally described this and grew this
for
>four years he never got any seeds from it and it has not been collected
since.
>He considered it a natual hybrid.
To which Dennis replied:
<< I found this for sale at www.munchkinnursery.com together with some other
hard-to-find irises like I. verna and a white form of I. prismatica. Now,
whether it is mislabelled or not is anyone's guess. I think the nursery
owner said that he got seeds from SIGNA though. >>
Don't know the plant beyond what I read. Here is the blurb which follows the
detailed botanical description.
"Dykes grew this plant successfully for four years, but without obtaining any
seed and presumably under the same conditions as his other plants from this
section. [Pseudoregelia] He, very properly, described it, but it never has
been collected again and Dykes himself thought it might be a natural hybrid.
It certainly appeared to be self-sterile. Only further collection, or possibly
hybridization, will settle the matter."
In the botanical description the shape of the capsule and the seeds is said to
be unknown. So is the natural distribution.
Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com
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