Re: CULT:Reblooming/Successive Bloom

Sometimes really massive TB rhizomes will produce a stalk from the terminal
bud, and one or more additional stalks from lateral buds.  If this happens,
it is really a case of extraordinarily deep branching, since the flower
stalk and the rhizome are continuous stem elements.  It should not be
called successive bloom unless the additional stalks are produced later,
not at the same time as the main stalk.  I do not know of any reports of
true successive bloom in TB irises, but suspect that it might occur.

Sometimes well-developed increases from the previous season will also
develop increases of their own and bloom.  This is more like a sort of
"half-reblooming" habit.

The phenomenon I was referring to earlier was "fasciation" (not
"fascination"), in which a terminal bud is damaged so that its growth is
asymmetrical.  This sometimes happens in cacti in such a way that growth
becomes two-dimensional, producing a so-called crested form.  I've never
seen this latter case happen in irises.
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