fragrant rhizome
- Subject: [iris] fragrant rhizome
- From: "Neil A Mogensen" n*@charter.net
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:47:23 -0400
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During the trimming and cleaning of some irises I had dug for shipping I kept
getting the most delightful fragrance wafting through. Finally I realized it
was coming from the iris rhizomes--so started sniffing them one by one.
The source--PINK RUFFLES--a diploid from 1940, K. Smith. I have always
enjoyed the ordinary but slight odor of iris rhizomes. This is the first one
I've run across that had such a definite, pleasing and delightful scent. The
clone I have is like the lighter, pinker one shown in the HIPS photos.
Apparently there are (at least) two different cv's circulating under this
name. What I have came from Linda Mann and matches what I grew some fifty
years ago in Idaho. It also has the form of NO-WE-TA (misspelled Noweta) in
the Schreiner on-line catalog. No-we-ta is the pod parent of Pink Ruffles,
both of which I grew many years ago and noted then also the very similar plant
habit, shape of foliage, stalk character and form of the blossom.
Neil Mogensen z 7, western NC near Asheville
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