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Name: Evelyn Sierra foothills, Northern CA (Zone 8a)              evelyninthegarden May 24, 2018 7:18 PM CST |
| This is Awesome Alex with 4 falls and no standards! The other bloom on the same rhizome is normal. Did you get anything odd in your iris blooms this year?  "Luck favors the prepared mind." - Thomas Jefferson |
Name: Mary Tennessee (Zone 7a)     urania1 May 24, 2018 7:28 PM CST |
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Name: Leslie Durham, NC (Zone 8a)      Lestv May 24, 2018 8:37 PM CST |
| Evelyn - Awesome Alex always produces chimera. It is very prone to them. Fortunately it is a very good bloomer so you can enjoy the odd ones and still have good blooms too. "The chimera is a one time happenstance event where the plant has a senior moment and forgets what it is doing." - Paul Black |
Los Altos, CA (Zone 9b)  AndreaD May 24, 2018 9:28 PM CST |
| Yes, I've gotten flowers with four falls, two falls, two standards, and even one with two beards on one fall! It seems to happen at the beginning of the season or at the end of the season, at least in my garden. I remember that Mesmerizer produced some chimeras, but other cultivars did, too. |
Name: Sherry Austin Santa Cruz, CA (Zone 9a)       Henhouse May 25, 2018 12:51 AM CST |
One of the blooms on my 'Awesome Alex' this year.. amusing   I had quite a few chimeras this year, but only took pictures of a few.. This one on 'Devil's Riot' was pretty good.  The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. |
Name: Marilyn, aka "Poly" South San Francisco Bay Area (Zone 9b) "The mountains are calling..."        Polymerous May 25, 2018 2:19 AM CST |
| I had one polymerous bloom (4 falls, 4 standards) on 'Katniss'. Every one of my supposedly 'Blue Fin' blooms (one stalk was all I had) had 3 falls, and NO standards. Evaluating an iris seedling, hopefully for rebloom |
Name: Evelyn Sierra foothills, Northern CA (Zone 8a) evelyninthegarden May 25, 2018 11:30 AM CST |
| Does anyone know what causes these things to happen? And that some irises are more prone to giving more or less what should be blooming? It is one thing to have a "flattie", that has been bred to do so, and another thing to have one kind of of bloom and then a different one on the very same stalk! "Luck favors the prepared mind." - Thomas Jefferson |
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