Iris virginica 'Contraband Girl'

Sean Zera zera@umich.edu
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:05:40 PDT
>
>         The  name ‘Contraband Girl’ is formally registered by the AIS as
> BOTH a Louisiana Iris (1953) and as a form of I. virginica (1992).
>
Huh, the 1992 registration doesn't appear when searching the online
register. Curiouser and curiouser...


>         There is a possibility that the plant registered in 1953 was not
> actually a LA iris, but mis-identified by the registrant.

Except for the dramatically different height the current plant does seem to
meet the original description, though there's not much to go on.

Sean Z
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