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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Pauli on May 12, 2012, 10:33:23 AM

Title: Iris from Turkey
Post by: Pauli on May 12, 2012, 10:33:23 AM

Hello,

this Iris should originate from the Alakabel Gecidi near Akseki. It flowers the first time for me. I got it from an old collector, who was severl times in Turkey decades ago, but in his last years the collection got a little mixed. He gave it to me under the name purpureospatha!
Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Iris from Turkey
Post by: Lesley Cox on May 13, 2012, 03:24:25 AM

Does the spathe actually have purple colouring?
There's nothing listed as such in the BIS "An Alphabetical Table.....of The Genus Iris)

Title: Re: Iris from Turkey
Post by: Pauli on May 13, 2012, 09:18:15 AM

Lesley,

the spatha is not colored purple - but I do not think this has much taxonomic value.
I thought purpureospatha to be close related to schachtii - these plants do not have so intensive yellow colour but are light yellow!