Delicata
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Robert Parker, 1874
Iris Class:
Species/Spec X
Bearded Class:
Tall Bearded
Age:
Before 1900
Fall Color:
Light Blue
Standard Color:
Light Blue
Pattern:
Self
Beard Color:
White
Hybridizer:
Parker
Rarity:
GG eligible - endangered

Full Description

TB B3L

From The Wing Seed Co. catalog for 1920: “A delicately beautiful Iris of quaint coloring, distinct in form and marking. Standards and falls same size and shape, small and oval, which with the spreading standards give a lily-like effect. S. very pure silvery light bluish-lavender, delicately traced deeper; F. a deeper and warmer shade, delicately netted on white, passing to velvety warm lavender at base; throat tigered dusky purple.”

HC RHS 1916.

Note: While this cultivar was actually superseded in the Check List by a 1902 W1L DB by Caparne, nice to know the original is still with us.