Hello everyone;
Because of its endangered status we may never see seed from "erirrhiza" But it would be interesting to see if it could add some climatic tolerance.
Two items I dropped researching which have always intrigued me was I. phragmitetorum and I. sanguinea from China. C. Grey-Wilson wrote in the BIS Species Guide that it had been rediscovered (I. phragmitetorum) and that material should be available in the future. I wrote to the BIS Species chair (who knew nothing and referred me to Marty) and he gave me Grey-Wilson's e-mail address but I never heard anything.
In Iris of China it discusses a sanguinea with silvered foliage, that would be very intriguing to aquire!
Bill
Robt R Pries <rpries@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>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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