Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Paul Black
Year Of Registration: 2021
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2021
Seedling Number: Y170B
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 31 inches (79 cm)
Bloom Season: Early
Early Mid
Mid
Flower Form: Bubble Ruffled
Bloom Color Classification: Purple
Flower Patterns: Bitone
Bloom Color Description: Dark indigo purple standards, narrow band of dark red purple; dark indigo purple falls becoming lighter toward edge, black purple haft edges, white around beards, veined and sanded near black, chalky silver white on reverse of petals
Beard Color: Light violet, dark ochre in throat, mid ochre in middle and at end
Style Arm Color: Dark indigo purple, crests edged dark red purple
Fragrance: Pronounced
Sweet

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 9b
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: V159P: (S146D: (Toast of the Town x Absolute Zero) x Multnomah Falls) X Creature of the Night

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  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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