Iris, non-bearded 2016

[Lesley Cox]

I think I'm becoming paranoid about iris names. I wonder John, if maybe you mean tenax (not tenet)? Tenax is a species from the Pacific Coast of North America and like so many of those it hybridizes with the other species in the section. However, I'm also thinking that your second picture above doesn't really look like tenax, particularly the foliage which looks longer, thinner, finer than other PCs. I can't think what else it might be though. Where was your seed from?

[johnstephen29]

Hi Lesley I bought it from a local nursery Iris tenax. Ignore any spelling mistakes it's this predictive spelling on this iPad and I can't turn it off.

[johnstephen29]

Hi Lesley I've just been on the Pacific bulb society website and looked up the pci section, the tenax look grassy on the pictures like mine does, take a look and see what you think.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

First flower on Iris goniocarpa 5 years after seeding. 

[johnstephen29]

Loverly Iris Luc

[Regelian]

Luc, I'm very jealous!  I've tried I. goniocarpa twice without germination.  Any trick you can pass on?

Very beautiful!

Jamie

[Roma]

Iris setosa from Magadan.  It has plenty flowers but has been a bit battered with the heavy rain we had for a few days.  Iris setosa from Alaska has only one miserable bud this year.  Both flowered well last year and set lots of seed.

[Lesley Cox]

I think you are right John, and I'm wrong. Sorry to mislead you.

That is a beautiful form of setosa Roma. Such a wide variation within that species, being just about circumpolar as it is. Your white markings are lovely and lively.

[johnstephen29]

It's ok Lesley were all human and make mistakes, I've made loads on here and folk have pointed them out. All a learning curve.

[Regelian]

Lesley, John,
I've raised quite a few I. tenax from collected seed and find the leaves can vary in width. The species is noted for its tough leaves, however.  Most are not as wide as I. douglasiana and never as thin as I. thompsonii. As the species, like most of the PCIs are defined in swarms, all being more or less closely related, it may be impossible to find truly homogenous genomes. Intergration and segregation over millenia being the means of speciation for this group. There is quite a bit of info at the Pacific Coast Native Iris Society.

http://www.pacificcoastiris.org/

[johnstephen29]

Hi Jamie thanks for getting in touch and for the link, lots of great information on there.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Luc, I'm very jealous!  I've tried I. goniocarpa twice without germination.  Any trick you can pass on?

Very beautiful!

Jamie

Hi Jamie, it was pure luck I guess, I sowed it as I do with all other species, standard mix of sand and commercial seeding compost - the seed was from Vojtech Holubec and just 1 germinated... fortunately it survived and made it to flowering size.  Hope this is the start of a long and happy life 

[johnstephen29]

Two more Iris in bloom here the first is the dark flowered I. Chrysographes and the second is a new species for me I. Hookeri, a loverly little Iris and a great edition to my collection.

[Roma]

Iris setosa white form
Iris chrysographes black form
Two self sown seedlings - one forrestii and one chrysographes - or hybrids
Another Iris ?chrysographes

[Roma]

Irises forrestii or hybrids
3 different yellows and one mauve