Reticulate Iris-2012

[Michael J Campbell]

The first reticulate Iris in the garden this year,more than a month early.

Iris reticulata, ex garden centre

[Hans A.]

Fine Plant Michael!

A Iris histrio is flowering for the first time, grown from seed ( had it labeled as Iris vartanii ).

[Alex]

An Alan McMurtie hybrid from Janis - Orange Glow.

Alex

[Lesley Cox]

Maybe more yellow than orange? but a little stunner all the same. An amazing colour combination.

[Peppa]

Woo, love those little cuties! 

An Alan McMurtie hybrid from Janis - Orange Glow.

Very unique and I like it very much!

[art600]

A couple of reticulate iris in flower in the bulb house:

Iris collected near the Iraqi border in Iran

Iris kopetdagensis - bought from Leonid Bondarenko in 2009

[WimB]

That 'Orange (Yellow  ) Glow' is wonderful, Alex.

I like those Irisses you collected near the Iraqi border a lot, Arthur...very fine petals! And I kopetdagensis is very nice too!

The first in flower in my garden was on the 18th of December: Iris 'Dance On'

Now Iris hyrcana, Iris 'Gordon' and Iris 'Katherine Hodgkin' are in flower outside too!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great stuff folks !! 

Art, the potful fom Iran/Iraq is beautiful - the one to the right at the bottom is my clear favourite !!

[Janis Ruksans]

A couple of reticulate iris in flower in the bulb house:

Iris collected near the Iraqi border in Iran

Iris kopetdagensis - bought from Leonid Bondarenko in 2009

Sorry Arthur, but it is not typical "kopetdaghensis", although by flower color it looks identical. One of main features separating kopetdaghesis from reticulata by Rodionenko is development of leaves comparing with flowers. By Rodionenko leaves in typical kopetdaghensis allways are positioned below flowers during blooming. I have both plants - true kopetdaghensis from Rodionenko and Leonids plant, looking very similar, but... leaf position is different.
Really is the "kopetdaghensis" real species or not, at present no one checked. DNA research is requested. In any case it must be renamed, because it really belongs to genus Iris, but there is another kopetdaghense between juno irises.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Maybe more yellow than orange? but a little stunner all the same. An amazing colour combination.

It is really orange (here) at start of blooming but later turns to deep yellow, but you are right - at any stage it is magnificent.
Janis

[art600]

Great stuff folks !! 

Art, the potful fom Iran/Iraq is beautiful - the one to the right at the bottom is my clear favourite !!

Luc

They are all identical - it is just that the one bottom right has opened further to reveal its sexy bits 

[art600]

A couple of reticulate iris in flower in the bulb house:

Iris collected near the Iraqi border in Iran

Iris kopetdagensis - bought from Leonid Bondarenko in 2009

Sorry Arthur, but it is not typical "kopetdaghensis", although by flower color it looks identical. One of main features separating kopetdaghesis from reticulata by Rodionenko is development of leaves comparing with flowers. By Rodionenko leaves in typical kopetdaghensis allways are positioned below flowers during blooming. I have both plants - true kopetdaghensis from Rodionenko and Leonids plant, looking very similar, but... leaf position is different.
Really is the "kopetdaghensis" real species or not, at present no one checked. DNA research is requested. In any case it must be renamed, because it really belongs to genus Iris, but there is another kopetdaghense between juno irises.
Janis

Thanks Janis for the explanation - as I understand you I should call it Iris reticulata.

Whatever I call it, I think it is a great colour.

[David Nicholson]

I think out newest Forum member knows a little bit about Iris reticulatas

[art600]

 

[Janis Ruksans]

Thanks Janis for the explanation - as I understand you I should call it Iris reticulata.

Whatever I call it, I think it is a great colour.

I agree about colour, I like them both, too although, some forms of same colour has larger flower parts. I suppose that under name Iris reticulata is hided several species, only no one worked on them seriously. The last newcomer was Iris zagrica, before that I described pskemense from CA and subsp. kurdica from E Turkey. The last has another special feature which I didn't noted when maid description - anthers of reticulata kurdica are black. I don't know any other sample from reticulatas with black anthers. There are 3 acquisitions from E Turkey which are registered in my files as subsp. kurdica and all have black anthers whilst all other my reticulata's sensu lato inclusive zagrica has yellow anthers. May be some of you observed black anthers in other reticulatas? May be it will be worth to rise the status of subsp. kurdica to Iris kurdica?
Janis