Maybe you can find Dec. issue of Garden Illustrated it has article by Brian Mathew with lots of pictures and some lovely Juno included. Pat zone 8 SC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane McGary" <janemcgary@earthlink.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 4:59 PM Subject: [pbs] A Georgeous Juno > Quoting from Josef Halda's 1997 seed catalog: > "Juno sp. JJH970737 [Dagestan, E. Caucasus] 3200m; subalpine rocky slopes; > china-blue and yellow single fls. on 5 cm stems; georgeous." > > I bought the seeds. It's blooming -- on 18 cm stems, not 5, no doubt owing > to the warmer conditions and lower light -- and it is indeed "georgeous." > Now if I only knew what it is! > > I hope someone can help me identify it. I have no way of posting photos > (perhaps someday I'll find somebody willing to come out here -- I'll > happily pay plenty -- and get all the hardware working together), but here > is a description: > > Leaves fully developed at flowering (in warm conditions, though), bright > green with thin whitish margin, more gray on reverse, lower 2.5 cm wide, > upper narrower and rather erect, clasping and mostly covering the scape. > Flowering scape 18-20 cm tall. > Falls about 5 cm long, winged, white strongly veined deep violet, deep > violet on outer half with bright golden yellow zone inside the violet zone; > crest white with some deep violet stippling along the top, slightly > undulate, not dissected. > Standards about 1.5 cm long, white with violet veins, held almost > horizontally,; I don't know the correct term for their shape, but it is > obcordate with a long narrow pointed central lobe extending out. > Style arms large, soft lavender deeper in the middle; hafts have broad > wings that turn under on the margins; anthers white. > > The color pattern is like that of some forms of I. narbuti, but that > species has deflexed, not horizontal, standards (according to the > description in Brian Mathew's "The Iris") and the haft of the fall is said > to be unwinged; also, it grows far to the east of where my iris was > collected. I compared it with all the species described in that book, but > it contains very few that are said to grow in the eastern Caucasus. > > I'll send this query to a couple of specialists by private mail also -- > sorry if you get two copies! > > Thanks, > Jane McGary > Northwestern Oregon > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php