Iris and Roscoea wiki updates

Antennaria@aol.com Antennaria@aol.com
Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:06:48 PDT
Hello folks,

I updated the PBS wiki pages with the following additions:

1.  Replaced old (poor) photo of Iris henryi with two new ones taken this 
year.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

2.  Added a new photo taken today in the rain, of Iris gracilipes var. alba 
"Buko Form", perhaps one of the choicest Iris of all.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

3.  Added 4 photos plus commentary on Roscoea cautleoides.
My plants are light yellow and notoriously difficult to get good color 
rendition in a digital photo... the color always look white or washed out.  I took a 
couple additional photos today in the pouring rain.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Regarding Roscoea, I'm curious as to why I frequently see the species name 
spelled "cautleyoides", and wonder if it did have an alternate spelling at one 
point, or is it just a spelling corruption.  

Checking out the online Flora of China at...
http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx/…
satisfies my curiousity whether this species is mixed up in cultivation or 
really as variable in the wild as cultivated plants might indicate.  Certainly 
some nursery websites show a range of forms and flowering times that make one 
wonder if it's all one species.
http://plantsforshade.co.uk/acatalog/Roscoea.html/

Sure enough, in the Flora of China, it's reported as growing 6-24" (15-60 cm) 
tall, flowering  before or with the foliage, flowering anytime between May - 
August depending on the colony, with flowers that can be yellow, purple, 
white, or less commonly pink.

Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States 
antennaria@aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5
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