White TB Iris ID?

8 years ago

In 2005 or perhaps 2006 I found someone digging and replanting her Iris rhizomes on Craigslist. She remembered that they were all award winners or something. I have no good reason to disbelieve her ('Everything Plus' & 'Dusky Challenger' appeared from her rhizomes). I was initially annoyed when most of the collection were a white iris. It appears to out perform the other iris and I now have a vast quantity and it might be nice to identify them. It is very tall, 37 to 46". A stem is three double sockets and one pic here shows two stems with three blooms at once. It has a yellow beard while white at end and the decoration around it is a maroonish brown extending to yellow at the end of each streak. Otherwise, falls and standards are pure white. Its unique point is a Very Fine creped or ruffled falls edge.

This pic shows the fine edge and the inner decoration because the fall is broken.

Here is a more normal view.

Any ideas?

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Nancy 6b
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
Does it have purple at the base of the foliage? It looks kind of like Lacy snowflake, it did win some kind of award.
chas045 thanked Nancy 6b
chas045
Original Author
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
Nancy: no it doesn't. I do have Everything Plus so I know what you're talking about. However, I just checked Lacy Snowflake. The decoration is identical and the super fine ruffle is at least almost identical. SO, even though I have handled hundreds of them by now, I will look at the base again (and today I noted that everything plus doesn't get purple bottoms until later). I see it is in the 38" range. Mine are almost all over 40 to 45" with 6" flower spread. BTW, I don't see anything about purple base on the iris society so other than height it sounds like a match. I also can't find anything about bud or socket count.

edit: Yes Nancy, I think you matched it. I found a picture of a mature plant (assuming they knew what they had) with matching stems and sockets and probable height estimation.
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Nancy 6b
8 years ago
I have not located mine yet, I have way too many. But I don't think it is very prominent. I had been concerned that my Cranapple was incorrect, because I saw no purple. I dug some last fall, and at the very base of it was a hint of purple.
littlebit_gw
8 years ago
Please dont just stick a name of it.. Its a white iris and there are hundreds that are near to identical to the one you are growing. If you must put a name to it, please just put possible LS..
chas045
Original Author
8 years ago
littlebit: if there are hundreds near to identical to what I showed with the identical 'decoration' and super fine crepe or ruffle, would you be so kind as to give me the name of ONE more.