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Iris Class:

Bearded

Bearded Class:

Intermediate Bearded

Age:

1920-1929

Fall Color:

Purple

Standard Color:

Purple

Pattern:

Self

Beard Color:

Lemon/Light Yellow

Hybridizer:

Huntington HG

Rarity:

GG eligible - endangered

Full Description

VE-20″

From Iris Color Handbook (Rainbow Iris – Lloyd Austin) 1958: “Most novel of all blue Iris. A most remarkable and interesting intermediate Iris with petals heavily crinkled like crepe paper.large flowers in lilac-blue deeper in the falls. Pollen Plentiful. (Sport of Zua)”.

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