Re: TB: root beer

I grow Angelus, though it's a little iffy on the ID.
I'll have to check to see if it has the root beer scent.
It's in a row with Buffy, Willow Maid, and Royal Tara -
though my housemate Gesine planted Cordelia in a different
part of the garden. Anybody have a source for a 50s Schreiner
iris - Sunnydale? :-)

Linda Mann wrote:


Seems like the question about root beer scented irises comes up every
year or so.  Just for fun, thought I'd see which irises have been
suggested as candidates in the past.  The first post here asking about
root beer irises was in 1999.  The three irises mentioned most often are
INCA CHIEF (most widely grown) , ALCAZAR, and CITY LIGHTS.  Others that
I saw mentioned were COPPER MOUNTAIN, ANGELUS, and DUTCH CHOCOLATE.



<I asked some time back if anyone could identify the heirloom bearded
iris often called the "Root Beer Iris" .. .... I asked Phil Edinger,
HIPS ID Chairman.  Phil tells me:  "This is ANGELUS (Egleberg, 1937)....
...Anner Whitehead>




Dave writes:

>This brings up a question for me.  Do the wild tetraploid Iris from the
>Near East smell like root-beer too?  These old scented cultivars tend to be
>ones that really look those wild types, and that might be purely derived
>just from those.  This would be I. cypriana, I. mesopotamica, I. trojana,
>perhaps 'Amas', and so on.

We grow I. trojana and Amas - I'll check out their scent when (if) they
bloom this spring (Amas has been a bit reluctant to bloom lately!).

Jean
San Francisco bay area, zone 9

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