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Iris × lurida Aiton, Hort. Kew. 1: 68 (1789). |
Curtis's Botanical Magazine table 669, 1803 offered the following description with the plate to the right; 1806 - table 986. This new table replaced the former one because "the colouring of that before published (no. 669) not being sufficiently characteristic of the plant". The fact that 1. The wrong coloring gave way to a new drawing with a rather different shape; 2. The 1st plant is said to be cultivated since 1758 although the 2nd was brought back from Tyrol in 1789; 3. The 1st plant has "larger flowers and more undulate laminae than usual" Leads us to think that the 1st plant was not iris lurida but iris humilior purpurea, another small sized purple iris known since the late 1500s. |
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 53: Pt 1. page 145 January 1928, Trials |
Listed by Dickson 1794 |
Redouté in Les Liliacées table 318, 1812 |
Listed by Prince 1823 |
Gardeners' Chronicle vol 20, page 373, 1883 Iris variegata Hybrids with Pallida |
Foster in Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 15: 3. October 1889 |
Dykes in The Genus Iris, 1913, Gives the following "Description.Rootstock , a rhizome, somewhat more slender than that of I. germanica. Leaves , ensiform, rather narrow, about 6-8 in. long at flowering time but growing eventually to a foot in height. Stem , about 18 in., bearing four bract-like leaves and a terminal head of two flowers and sometimes one lateral flower. Spathe valves , green flushed with purple in the lower half and scarious in the upper part, not keeled, 2 in. long. Pedicel , very short, only l in. Ovary , cylindrical or very obscurely trigonal, with thick walls. Tube , about I in., yellow-green, trigonal. Falls , long and narrow, spathulate, with a reddish-maroon blade, the haft bearing veins of the same colour on a yellow ground. The beard consists of orange hairs and is very prominent. 3 in. by I in. Standards , oval, unguiculate, emarginate, connivent, brownish-purple, concolor, the haft being yellowish with brown-purple mottlings; slightly shorter than the falls. 2:f in. by 1-i in. Styles , yellow with a purple keel. Crests , small, darker than the styles, brownish-purple, subquadrate with jagged edges. Stigma , large, oblong, entire. Filaments , yellowish-white rather longer than the anthers. Anthers , cream. Pollen , cream. Capsule , Seeds ,Observations.This Iris has been the subject of much confusion which was created by Spach when he described (I.e.) an I. Redouteana as different from I. lurida. He bases his description on Redouté's description and figure and says that it differs from Willdenow's I. lurida. As, however, both Redouté and Willdenow quote Solander's original description in the Hortus Kewensis, it is difficult to see what ground Spach had for setting up his species. The plant described and figured by Solander and Redouté is still in cultivation and is not improbably of hybrid origin. The colour and the shape of the falls seem to point to I. variegata as one of the parents and the theory of its hybrid origin is supported by the fact that it appears to be sterile. The only difficulty is that it flowers early, about a month before I. variegata. Cultivation is easy and the plant is valuable for its flowers of a somewhat unusual colour. It has the additional advantage of sometimes flowering a second time in the autumn, which is a further argument in support of the theory of its hybrid origin. In cultivating a large collection of Irises, it will be found that hybrids are much more apt to flower a second time in the autumn than are species. Spach's I. lurida (Hist. Veg. Phan. xm. p. 56 (1846)), which he identifies with Bot. Mag. t. 669 (1803), has larger, slightly paler reddish-purple flowers than the real I. lurida and also a taller and more ample inflorescence. It was probably one of the sambucina or squalens hybrids of which there are innumerable forms (see p. 234). |
Listed by Sheets 1928; Vilmorin 1938; and Katkameir 1939 |
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jpg | 1787-1800 The Botanical Magazine (W. Curtis) Iris lurida (4).jpg | manage | 250 K | 09 Sep 2021 - 06:49 | PascalJordan | Bot. Mag. Second publication of iris lurida |
jpg | Lurida_small.jpg | manage | 50 K | 07 Aug 2012 - 20:24 | UnknownUser | Bot. Mag Table 669 |
jpg | irislurida.jpg | manage | 55 K | 17 Jan 2010 - 04:08 | Main.htb | ©2005 Laurie Frazer |
JPG | larida.JPG | manage | 360 K | 07 May 2019 - 02:43 | Main.TLaurin | Photo scanned from the Carol Lankow slide collection |
JPG | larida2.JPG | manage | 346 K | 07 May 2019 - 02:46 | Main.TLaurin | Photo scanned from the Carol Lankow slide collection |