Siva Siva
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TB 36″ M
From Cooley’s Gardens catalog for 1962: “A flamboyant combination of rich gold standards flushed cinnamon and porcelain white falls heavily bordered and etched brilliant red-mahogany-brown. The contrast is more pronounced and vivid than indicated in our picture above. All petals are fluted and rippled and the flaring falls are almost horizontal. Named for a colorful and exciting Samoan dance akin to the hula. The large, long lasting flowers are fragrant with the scent of spice.”
From Schreiner’s Iris Lover’s catalog for 1966: “Siva Siva is a fancy patterned plicata quite flamboyant in its combination of bold, cinnamon flushed standards and porcelain white falls, heavily bordered and edged a deep red-mahogany maroon. All petals are fluted and rippled and the flaring falls are almost horizontal. The flowers have the fragrance of spice.”
(My Honeycomb X sdlg 33-4),
HM 1963.