CULT: Weirdnesses and Oddities

Hail,
 
I want to refresh my mind about the oddities one encounters in Iris  culture. 
I am not talking about the people, but the often benign  developmental or 
cultural anomalies which cause perturbation and anxiety,  until one finds out 
what they are all about.
 
The stem anomaly we have been discussing is also one, I suppose,  although it 
is not benign and we have not figured it out yet. Keith Keppel  tells me he 
has seen it at his place and there is never any apparent insect  damage to 
account for it. 
 
Anyway, I can think of these things for bearded irises: 
Melon scoop balls on the tops of rhizomes caused by crickets; accordion  
pleated foliage caused by the leaf having gotten hung up as it emerged from the  
fan; loopy snake stems caused by cold; extra flower pieces, or a  shortage of 
same caused by weather, generally cold, sometimes drought;  cracks, silvering, 
or discoloration on the top of exposed established  rhizomes, caused by sun 
and sometimes freezing; newly planted rhizomes  which apparently disappear off 
the face of the earth in circumstances not  suggestive of human larceny, which 
Clarence maintains is crows making off with  them.
 
Can you think of others? What about beardless iris oddities?
 
Cordially,
 
Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA

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