I think #1 is I. germanica
Pic 5, Lorelei
Pic 8 looks like Jurassic Park.

All guesses but check them out.

janielouy said:





Any help on this beauty? Tall maybe 38" very distinct PBF and early since it is my first to bloom. We have ruled out Bountiful Harvest which was what it was marked. I thought Rare Treat but the experts say no. Any other ideas? The purple is quite dark on both the standards and the band on the falls.

If the lower half of the beard is kind of orange, it may be Quantum Leap, but the color of the purple isn't quite right, and I don't have it any more so I don't know if it has pbf.

compared to Loreley
Noid


Loreley


This one has very pronounced purple based foliage, I don't think Jurassic Park has that.??

I'm noticing that yours has paler standards than JP. I got excited cuz mine opened today.

Could 9/10 be Dauntless or Indian Chief?

Nope, not Dauntless or Indian Cheif..I have both of those and this one is much lighter. I was leaning towards possibly Rameses but that is not it either. Here is a better picture of the noid.






Dauntless


Indian Chief

Yeah, standards are too light.

I just was given a historic that looks similar.
No name, but I thought I'd join the party :)

Close to, if not, Indian Chief.

I would ask Arlyn @crowrita1 He is my go to for historics.

Welcome to the NoID party Ann. We do love them.

I don't think it's IC, standards are too "tan", and not 'reddish" enough. It looks to be about the same age, though, and could very well be another of Ayers' intros. I have a pic of "Zuni" someplace(just have to find it !), and Zuni, as I remember ,had lighter colored std's than IC. Whatever it is, it's a nice iris !

My memory lied to me again ! Here's Zuni (Argyle Acres photo):

it's 'lighter" than IC, but still not "tan" enough. So Check out some pictures of "Frank Adams" (Lapham 1937), and see what you think of that as a match. The AIS Twiki has several(, not sure about the Database).
http://www.historiciris.org/ph... this one is from the HIPS gallery

OOPS ! The link just takes you to the gallery, you'll have to scroll to Frank Adams.....I'm no "techie"

crowrita1 said:OOPS ! The link just takes you to the gallery, you'll have to scroll to Frank Adams.....I'm no "techie"

There is no other way to separate an iris from there, they are in the side scroll bar so the link address doesn't change for the individual blooms.

Told you I was no techie !!

crowrita1 said: Told you I was no techie !!

You are too an techie, you are a mechanical techie, just not a digital one.

My Loreley has a pronounced edge to it.

@hazeleyes, how tall is your white NOID? Does it have PBF? You might look at 'New Snow'. That's one I eliminated in searching for my white NOID. If it's very tall, you might consider 'Purissima'.

hazeleyes said:Finally got a FFO noid

Here is my Frank Adams, not the greatest pic but not the worst I have taken either!

Maybe I made that clear as mud on the Loreley. It does have a pronounced edge, the top one was the noid.
Here is another shot of Loreley