I've tried crosses between I. foetidissima and large hybrid modern Spurias, but to no avail. Mostly I'm applying foetidissima pollen onto the Spuria flowers. I've only tried the reciprocal cross a few times. It occurred to me maybe the pollen tubules are too short so I tried various ways of slicing the flower and applying the pollen, but still never got any seeds. I'm still convinced this cross is possible so I'll keep trying, but so far I've got about 6 years of attempts with nothing to show for it. Dennis in Cincinnati On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 3:15 AM, Mark BROWN <brown.mark@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > Dear all, > I have not had time to read the full paper but as a comment here has > suggested a cross between Iris foetidissia x I. spuria (or whatever they > are now called, I have not got that far yet), should be very possible I am > wondering if it has been done and if we could have a whole new range of > 'iris' with brightly coloured seeds and good sized flowers? > I grow a range of coloured seeded forms of foetidissima from white to > yellow to orangey red... > Mark > > > Mark W.Brown, > 1924 route de la mer, > 76119 Sainte Marguerite-sur-mer, > France > > > > Message du 10/11/15 19:02 > > De : "David Pilling" > > A : "Pacific Bulb Society" > > > Copie à : > > Objet : A new comprehensive generic arrangement of the ‘Iris sensu > latissimo’,clade > > > > Hi, Today I was given a copy of the new paper (see below). I am allowed > to give copies to my colleagues - if you want one, drop me a *private* > email. Can a rainbow consist of a single colour? A new comprehensive > generic arrangement of the ‘Iris sensu latissimo’ clade (Iridaceae), > congruent with morphology and molecular data MANUEL B. CRESPO[1]*, MARIO > MARTÍNEZ-AZORÍN[1] & EVGENY V. MAVRODIEV[2] 1 dCARN & CIBIO (Instituto de > la Biodiversidad), Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, ES-03080 Alicante, > Spain; e-mail: crespo@ua.es 2 Florida Museum of Natural History, > University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. *author for > correspondence -- David Pilling http://www.davidpilling.com/ > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/