Re: Iris cristata
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] Iris cristata
- From: Robt R Pries r*@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:14:28 -0800 (PST)
Some years back I grew about 6 different white clones and about 8 different blue/purple clones, the only one I have now is 'Edgar Anderson'. Something I don't really undestand is how variations in Irises are distributed in nature. I have seen many populations that seem to have no variability at all and in other places I have seen populations where every Iris seems somewhat different than the ones around it. There was just an article in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society discussing diversity in various sized populations of Iris aphylla in Poland. In that study even tiny populations contained as much diversity as very large populations, so it seems size of the populkation may be irrelevent. In fact some enormous population Iris missouriensis that I have seen in Colorado showed very little variation, but some small populations of I. missouriensis in South Dakota show white and all shades of Blue/purple. It seems like an intriquing problem.
oneofcultivars@aol.com wrote:In a message dated 1/13/2004 9:44:49 AM Central Standard Time,
rpries@sbcglobal.net writes:
> Is this white the same as that white? Who knows unless they have a
> cultivar name. No one would every distribute a TB as just white. All of the
> cultivars are named selections of the species and there has been no hybrids created
> that I know of. All where selections from wild populations and those that have
> been registered often state where they were collected.
I have observed native colonies of the cristata varient that grows here for
about 30 years in passing and closely for the last 11 years. I have never
observed a "white" bloom among the several locations it inhabits or under garden
culture.
Height here 8 to 12 inches in the wild. Twelve inches is more common under
garden culture.
Smiles,
Bill Burleson
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