Oncos 2009

[Miriam]

Thanks for all these beautiful photos!

Welcome to the forum Thomas

Simon,
This is an arilbred with Iris stolonifera (Regelia) involved .

[Sinchets]

Thanks Armin and Miriam.

[BULBISSIME]

Simon, I also think it's an aril bread but can't help ou as I'm really not specialized in hybrids.

I hope somebody will give you're beauty a name 

[Sinchets]

Flowering today in the rock garden.  I thought it might be an onco, but:-[ sorry to say its label was lost a while ago. Anyone help with an id?

Looking back through my records, and searching pics on the net, I think it could be 'Vera Olivia'. Does anyone  else know this plant?

[Regelian]

Simon,

I think your arilbred is Vera-Olivia, a cross with the regelia 'Vera' and a SDB.  As Miriam noted, I. stolonifera is in the heritage. Vera is stolonifera x korolkowii, an old hybrid from Van Tubergen.

As a complex hybrid, it is largely infertile, but I would certainly try it with a TB.  The chromosome count should be 11-11-8-12 (42 chr.)

[Luc Gilgemyn]

What an amazing series of photos !
I thought the season was over ? 

Great show everyone !
Thanks a lot for sharing these beauties !

[Regelian]

Simon,

our posts crossed in the ether.  At least we know you did have the plant, therfore we now know for sure that it is 'Vera-Olivia'.  I am very impressed with Ransom's hybrids.  They are quite strong growers and increase well for me.  Also, pretty wet-tolerant.

[Sinchets]

Thanks for the help Jamie. Miriam and Armin suggesting it was Arilbred helped me track it down more easily from my records and then on the net.
Previously I had kept it in a position where it could be covered from too much wet in summer and winter- with the rest of my Oncocyclus/Regelia type irises. When this bed was dismantled (because of the voles) I had lots of broken and disconnected pieces of rhizome I couldn't be sure about so I planted them in various parts of the rock garden. This one seems to have been quite happy so far.
At the moment I only have dwarf bearded irises flowering, but I will have a go with some crosses just because 

[Lesley Cox]

Simon, we'll certainly let your regelias in here as they, with oncos come under a collective heading of "Arils." Contrary to what some may think of my taste in hybrids, I DO like your 'Vera-Olivia' very much. With that blue and yellow colouring it could be a logo for our local rugby team.

[Lesley Cox]

A dark form of Iris paradoxa is flowering now, very old one from Avon bulbs.

I thought this was one of Rafa's superb paintings.

[Paul T]

Fred,

That pic of paradoxa is breathtaking!!  As Lesley  says, it looks like a painting!!! 

Simon,

That stolonifera 'Brown Standard' is a great colour isn't it?  Wow! 

[Sinchets]

I love these unusual colours in the iris flowers- I could certainly get addicted if my wallet was bigger

[Regelian]

Simon,

I wonder if your I. stolonifera 'Brown Standard' was one of the parents in 'Afrosiab'.  It is amazing the amount of influence the I. stolonifera parent has had in this hybrid.

[Sinchets]

That is a beauty Jamie. Any idea what the other parent (s) may have been?

[Oron Peri]

Shalom Oron,
Wonderful photos!
Where have you been? Elon Moreh or Itamar? I've been in both places but only never at flowering time   
Thomas.

Hello Thomas and welcome to the forum.

The photos I have sent earlier are from a new small  population discovered only recently.
We do not give the exact location  for the obvious reason to protect the colony from being lifted out....sorry.