Bill
Iris sibirica erirrhiza was mention in an article by
Tim Loe, I believe in the BIS species group newsletter
a few years back. I e-mailed Tim so I could gather
details about the plant. He visited Slovenia and saw
plants. As I remember they had flowers down in the
foliage and the only claim to fame was that they may
provide genes for tolerating another set of climatic
conditions. Tim sent me some notes but at the moment I
can not lay my hands on them.
I have put an entry in the current SIGNA checklist for
it but I do not have any information there yet except
for the fact that it was first described by Eduard
Pospichal, 1897-99. I seem to remember that the
reference was in Croatian so I could not get a
description. I am afraid I am suffering some burnout
on work on the SIGNA checklist. It is such a huge
project and there seems to be so little interest that
I find it hard to get enthusiastic about the work
required to keep adding to it.
--- Ellen Gallagher <ellengalla@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Maybe you should post this to the iris-species
> list on Yahoogroups. If you don't subscribe, one of
> us who does can forward it for you. It is not a
> terribly busy list, so I recommend subscribing to
> anyone interesting in iris species.
>
> Ellen
>
> Jpwflowers@aol.com wrote:
> Hi Bill, I remember it being written up
> in the BIS Yearbook a few years ago. Somebody saw
> it on a trip to Italy, I think, and wrote it up.
> Marty
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wmcdougherty@cs.com
> To: Sibrob@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 1:32 PM
> Subject: [sibrob] I. sibirica ssp. erirrhiza
>
> Hello everyone;
>
> I stumbled into a group of pictures on Calphotos
> listed as I. sibirica ssp. erirrhiza. According to
> the owner of the pix a subspecies (of some question)
> of I. sibirica which grows well in a
> sub-mediterranian climate, European Zone 8-9. Is
> anyone familiar with this plant? In Slovenia it has
> endangered species status.
>
> Bill Dougherty
>
>
>
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