Oncos 2009

[Hans A.]

Wow Rafa - yes this plant is something familiar to me...

Miriam great pics - i thought I. bismarckiana would be a shyer flowering species.

Hans -your forbidden onco hybrid is still very beautyful ,don't dispose of it.

Certainly I will keep them - this are beautiful strong plants -about 80cm high - and they remember me to pollinate my others by hand ...

Here a second Iris nigricans (clone) is open.

[Rafa]

Really dark Hans, the clone I grow stopped grow due soft root this year, like many others due I haven't notice several leak in the bulbframe...

[Hans A.]

 

[BULBISSIME]

Rafa,
you should try Streptomycin !
Wunderfull plants Miriam, Hans and Ori, and very early !
I still only have leaves....
But the wethar is getting better, so I hope growth will really start !

[Miriam]

Miriam great pics - i thought I. bismarckiana would be a shyer flowering species.

It's true, this species uses its energy mainly for vegetative reproduction, instead of producing flowers and seeds.
According to a research done recently, only 12% of the flowers of this species will produce seeds (and not many in each capsule).

[BULBISSIME]

Miriam great pics - i thought I. bismarckiana would be a shyer flowering species.

It's true, this species uses its energy mainly for vegetative reproduction, instead of producing flowers and seeds.
According to a research done recently, only 12% of the flowers of this species will produce seeds (and not many in each capsule).

Pity 

[Miriam]

Pity 

Efforts are being taking place in order to help this species to pruduce more seeds by hand-pollination ,and now 90% of the flowers are setting seeds.

[Hans A.]

Hello Miriam, thanks for this information !
Do you know how this is done - is there someone who walks in the morning through the plants with collected pollen of the same population? - As I know the stigma desiccates quickly (and even more in your warmer area) - so the fertile timespan should be quite short.
Thinking in the almost selfsterlity of Oncos and the behaviour of this species to form larger patches of  single clones the before mentioned 12% of natural seed set is not so bad...

[Miriam]

It is a project done thanks to the collaboration of students from nearby schools and universities together with the Nature-Parks Authority. They collected the pollen of some strong healthy plants in the same population and hand-pollinated all the flowers.

[arillady]

Miriam,
How wonderful that you are getting young people involved. They will be the future of their threatened species.

[Gerhard Raschun]

Wonderful picts of the rarest oncos here 

late, but here is my first onco this year.

[BULBISSIME]

Never seen it !
Is it a species ?

[arillady]

Gerhard what a beard!!! Never seen one that size before - I guess the signal is part of the size too.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

late, but here is my first onco this year.

This is quite a "first" Gerhard !  Stunning flower !! 

[Hans A.]

  Very interesting  spec., Gerhard- and not a bad one to start with - I am looking  forward to see your Iris iberica.