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Specific Families and Genera => Iris => Topic started by: Palustris on May 21, 2011, 09:24:23 PM

Title: Kashmir (?Jammu) Iris
Post by: Palustris on May 21, 2011, 09:24:23 PM

This was photographed in Jammu which I think is in Kashmire. Anyone put a name to it? TIA

Title: Re: Kashmir (?Jammu) Iris
Post by: Maggi Young on May 26, 2011, 09:38:48 AM

David Shaw posted about this iris too, in another thread...
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7319.msg202811#msg202811
Lesley gave this reply

Quote from: Lesley Cox on May 25, 2011, 10:40:39 PM

If it's as tall as that I'm wonderng about some close relative of I. orientalis. Not sure of the distribution of that species. It doesn't look quite like it - no yellow on the falls for instance - but worth a thought perhaps. It would always be helpful to see the foliage when trying to identify irises, and, indeed, the whole plant.

Now I've had a better look, there IS some yellow well into the haft it seems. So I would suggest I. orientalis or a species close to that. Spuria section anyway. Formally known as I. ochroleuca.