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Hybridizer: Paul Black
Year Of Registration: 2002
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2003
Seedling Number: H238BB
Classification: Standard Dwarf Bearded (SDB)
Registered Height: 14 inches (36 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Bloom Color Classification: Purple
Wine
Bloom Color Description: Claret purple standards; lighter claret purple falls, small plum spot around beards and small blue flash at end of beards
Beard Color: Violet and brown
Style Arm Color: Purple, paler edges
Fragrance: Pronounced
Spicy
Awards: Honorable Mention: 2005
Award of Merit: 2007

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Amphidiploid
Parentage: Snugglebug X Buddy Boy
Child plants: 8 child plants

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Common names
  • Standard Dwarf Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: Menton, France
Date: 2018-04-04
Really intense colour
Location: Menton, France
Date: 2019-04-12
Location: From my  garden. Poland.
Date: 2017-05-19
Location: my yard

Image courtesy of Cayeux Iris

Date: 2013-04-13

Photo courtesy of Rainbow Iris Farm
Location: IN MY GARDEN (920 m in the northern alps)
Date: 29. April 201o
Photo by Paul2032
Location: In my garden...Pleasant Grove, Utah
Date: 2012-04-18
The color is truer on this one
Location: Pleasant Grove, Utah
Date: 2012-04-18
In my garden

Date: 2013-04-13
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