Carolina Gold
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Powell, R&I 1970
Iris Class:
Bearded
Bearded Class:
Tall Bearded
Age:
1970-1979
Fall Color:
Yellow
Standard Color:
Yellow
Pattern:
Self
Beard Color:
Orange/Deep Yellow
Hybridizer:
Powell

Full Description

TB 33″ E-L

From Cooleys Iris Catalog 1976:An intense golden yellow. Rich standards and falls are very wide and ruffled with elegant form.Excellent branching.Flowers long lasting and heavily textured.

From Schreiner’s 1984 catalog: “Rich intense unfading gold yellow, a perfect self, beard and all. Velvet texture, magnolia like substance, beautifully flared flowers, on strong well branched stems.”

(Olympic Torch X Orange Chariot), HM 1972.

Provenance: Image1 from Presby Iris Gardens, circa 2002. Origin of rhizome, unknown.