It may be one of those plants that do better without a greenhouse than in one. When I bought it a year ago, the vendor warned me that it had a reputation for weak stems, and the flowers in that batch were all leaning heavily on stakes. Now it is in bloom again, but the peduncle & pedicel are as stiff as a poker. I only hope that as it matures, it produces more & larger flowers. The AOS award record for a different clone is two flowers, 6.5 cm.
On the other hand, I haven't been able to grow any Sc. Petite Pride crosses up to now. The flower stems on all of them were pathetic. I am trying Petite Elf (x Jungle Elf), but it hasn't bloomed yet.
One of the grandparents of C. Angelwalker is C. Obrieniana. The cultivated hybrid suddenly appeared in a Victorian greenhouse and was registered in 1890 as C. dolosa x loddigesii, by that indefatigable nurseryman Hort. Hort. also proclaimed that it was a natural hybrid. It is listed as C. xobrieniana in MBG W3Tropicos. IPNI (based on the same entry) calls it a species and says it equals C. intermedia. RHS is taking no chances & lists it as a natural hybrid with no further details (as well as the cultivated cross "registered" by Hort.).
Does anyone have any further information on this?
Iris
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