TB-CULT: Wrinkled fans

---<< Bzzscheile@aol.com wrote:

> Almost every one of these seedlings
> has a wad of wrinkled fans 
> besides the normal fans which usually means an iris
> is going to bloom but it 
> looks like multiple stalks forming from one starting
> point (haven't actually 
> seen any stalks).  This started about 2 months ago
> and I thought they might 
> bloom this fall but so far no go.  What causes this
> bunching of fans? >> 

Barbara,

I usually see a condition such as you describe on at
least some of my irises in the spring most years. I
have attributed it to sudden and sharp changes in
temperature (not uncommmon here in the spring), which
disrupts the growth rate of the emerging leaves and
results in their tangled and distorted appearance. I
don't recall that any of these fans, even if they are
of bloom size, ever produced a stalk. 


Jeff Walters
in northern Utah
(USDA Zone 4)
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