Oncoseason 2010

[arillady]

Iris aurantica - still waiting patiently.
And a couple of more shots of what is not an onco but a regelia cross - the second flower on the stem of BIS 06/09 x Tadzhiki Bandit seed from Laurence Ransom in France.

[Paul T]

Wow, Pat.  Great colour.

[arillady]

Iris aurantica in flower
I will show a couple of newer shots when I download later.
I tried some pollen on 'Manon' - a miniature tall bearded - probably not possible if I had time to look up the counts. Also kept a couple to dry out for next year.
I noticed too that this species has that triangle shaped signal spot which I saw earlier this year in some of the aril species crosses. Must look up those photos to see the connection.

[BULBISSIME]

Superb Pat !
One of my favourite species, and with a such lovely scent...

[lindamartin101]

these are absolutely beautiful!!

[PeterT]

congratulations Pat

[arillady]

Thanks for the compliments on the iris - I did put my nose in it after you said that Fred. A faint scent. I should have done it earlier but most of the arils don't seem to have much perfume or I have not bothered to check.
Off line a member has brought up the spelling of this iris. Iris auranitica is in Mathew's The Iris but in the BIS Species book it is spelt Iris aurantiaca but they also spell Iris mariae as mairiae.
However it is spelt, here are two photos taken last night in the setting sun and the third one was taken indoors today at the Barossa Rose & Flower Show.
They only had a class for tall bearded irises!

[Maggi Young]

Hello and welcome, Linda!
I see from your website that as an artist you have been unable to resist the charms if the Iris..... you will find much to enjoy here, for sure!

[Paul T]

It's gorgeous, Pat.  I love the blend of colours, and that wonderful contrast in the signal.  Very, very nice.

[Maggi Young]

Once again there is confusion over a name.... I wondered when I saw aurantica oer auranticia, because I was more familair with "aurantiaca" as a name in other plants.... a search reveals much use of all sorts of spellings, as Pat reports.... but the Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families gives this info in its Iris pages.....

http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do

Iris auranitica Dinsm. in G.E.Post, Fl. Syria, ed. 2, 2: 601 (1933)


Iris auranitica var. unicolor Mouterde, Fl. Djebel Druze: 82 (1953).
This name is a synonym.
Accepted Name:    Iris auranitica Dinsm. in G.E.Post, Fl. Syria, ed. 2, 2: 601 (1933).

 Homotypic Synonyms:

Iris auranitica f. wilkiana Chaudhary, G.Kirkw. & C.Weymouth, Bot. Not. 128: 406 (1975 publ. 1976).

[arilnut]

Pat that iris should win best of show in any class!

John B

[Miriam]

Just Amazing 

[Rafa]

splendid plants! : congratulations Pat

[arillady]

Thanks everyone for the congratulations and especially Maggi for welcoming Linda who rang me the other day after scouring Australia for a grower of arils. Glad you followed the link Linda to such an exceptional plant forum - you have much to think about now I am sure.
I will also contact Shaukat Chaudhary who now lives in Sydney and is an ASI member re the name. Where does the name come from and what does it mean I wonder?
John I did have the iris cut on our Heritage Rose stand - also included some Iris lactea spikes but that is another species altogether that I can't speak highly enough about for our conditions.
Most people were dumbstruck with seeing Iris auranitica as most people I think only know tall bearded irises.
I have also been asked about registering irises so that they might go further afield. Naming anything is one of my bad points - hence my children only have one first name.
If I did register anything I would like to do them all under a 'prefix' with a middle eastern sound such as 'Kalifa'. 
Miriam maybe you could help me out here with a name. It would be terrible to find a name that you liked only to discover that it meant something really terrible.

[Miriam]

Iris auranitica is called after the area where it grows- The Hauran.
The Hauran is a volcanic (no more active) area in Syria. The name means "the hollow land"-because of its Tuff which has many small holes in it.
For more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauran

Pat, no problem to help you with a name. Just give me a direction.