Irises: Siberians and species part 3, 1 by Todd_Boland

Todd_Boland wrote:
Interesting story about Murrayana....the plant was found in Newfoundland in the 1930's. The gentleman, Mr. Murray, sent plants to Agnes Marion Ayre, a local amateur botanist. She described it to Fernald who names it Murrayana. She also sent it to her sister (or a friend) in England, where it was grown and passed around. Eventually it made it to the States. Meanwhile, the only plant ever collected and seen locally was the one dug to give to Agnes, so our local plant was extirpated. I met a friend of Marty and Jan in Newfoundland and told them about the Murrayana...they contacted Marty who then sent me 3 plants! I hope to re-introduce it to the wild some day.

More biverstatas opening...this was my above versata crossed back to versicolor.....this one seemed to retain more of the ensata parent than the other biversata offspring.