Irises: Can anyone ID this iris?, 1 by Oldgardenrose
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Oldgardenrose wrote: I have probably a half dozen of different colored beards and shades of color of the falls and standards but they all follow the germanica pattern. Polly gave me an iris which is supposed to be a verified species I.germanica. It is very close to the one in the picture. The problem with crossing these old irises with the modern hybrids is most of the oldies are diploid where the newer ones are tetraploids. I was told that crossing them results in a sterile triploid which ends the hybridizing chain. Of course, you could get lucky and come up with that rare one of a kind. I found this one naturalized along an obscure township back road. |