■(TB) 'Australis'

1861, Todaro

'Australis' (Augustino Todaro, 1861, Italy). TB; Late midseason bloom. Color Class-B1L; "Standards pallid blue-violet, slightly more violet, reticulated with red-brown; carriage domed, arching to overarched; blade obovate, notched, undulate, ruffled and frilled, revolute, smooth; size 2 ½ in. wide, 3 ¼ in. long. Falls pale hortense violet to lighter, reticulated with grayish on inner haft; carriage drooping to recurved; wedge-shaped, convex, oval; smooth; size 2 ¼ in. wide, 3 ¼ in. long. Beard coarse, dense, considerably projecting, white, tipped with yellow at base; haft very broad, channeled; reticulations broad, equally spaced; style-branches broad, overarching, bluish; crest large, fringed; pollen plentiful; spathe-valves scarious; Krelage 1876; Pleasant fragrance. Iris pallida Lam..

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From Bonnewitz catalog, 1927: AUSTRALIS. Pallida Dalmatica type, with a little more rose in its coloring than that variety. Late. Tall and vigorous like Clio $0.35.
Nouv. Gen. e Spec. 3: 49. 1861 Krelage, 1876 Journ. Linn. Soc. Lon. 16: 146. 1878; Nyman, Consp. Fl. eur. 700. 1882 Foster, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 15: 3. October 1889; Bonwitz 1920; Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station Memoir 100: 95. July 1926, illustrated. Journal Royal Horticultural Society 55: Pt. 1, 116-160. January 1928, Trials. Award of Merit, RHS. shown by Kelway.

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