I'VE SEEN A LARGE NUMBER OF THEM BUT NONE THAT WOULD FALL INTO THIS COLOR
RANGE.
Shirley Meneice
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Poulsen" <wpoulsen@pacbell.net>
To: "PBS Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:50 AM
Subject: [pbs] Cyan colored Iris?
> As a few of you know, I've been accumulating a (very small) list of
> those plants (not just geophytes) that have flowers whose color falls
> in the cyan range of the spectrum. Other names for colors in this range
> are teal, aqua, aquamarine, blue-green, turquoise. It is a very
> striking color to see in a flower and the South Africans have two bulbs
> that appear on this list: Lachenalia viridiflora and Ixia viridiflora.
> A couple of other plants whose flowers are this color and look almost
> unreal are the Chilean bromeliad Puya alpestris and the tropical vine
> Strongylodon macrobotrys.
>
> I was slowly thumbing through that new Iris book I mentioned a little
> while ago, and in the chapter on Pacific Coast Hybrids, in the
> description for the species Iris munzii, it described their typical
> color range and then said: "..., but in cultivation they can be
> turquoise to deep sky blue." These two colors are often what some
> people will use when trying to describe the color cyan. So my
> cyan-flower alert went off, and I decided to ask this knowledgeable
> group if they have seen these flowers and if what the author is
> describing here might be a cyan colored Iris? Does anyone have photos
> of it or know where there might be photos of this on the web? Is it
> cyan enough to include in the cyan-colored-flower list?
>
> Thanks,
> --Lee Poulsen
> Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a
>
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