Dark Mystery
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What's This?
Lloyd Austin 1962 / 1962
Iris Class:
Bearded
Bearded Class:
Tall Bearded
Age:
1960-1969
Fall Color:
Red/Maroon
Standard Color:
Red/Maroon
Pattern:
Bitone
Beard Color:
White
Hybridizer:
Austin
Rarity:
GG eligible - endangered
Full Description
42″
From Lloyd Austins’s 1965 Catalog, “Lloyd Austin’s WorldFamous Iris Color Guidebook”.
Outstanding for size and its deep mysterious coloring. A large flower with a spread of 6″. Standards reddish amethyst; falls large, very rounded, velvety blackish crimson, with striking creamy white beards. Very novel, completely unlike any other re-bloomer. Reblooms in Oct and Nov and on into winter when climate permits. Pollen plentiful (Russian Bronze x April Showers)
Provenance: Image 1 from garden of L Munro, Newfoundland NJ, 2009; iris obtained from Riverview Iris Gardens 2006.