(AB) 'Fallen Leaf'

1931, Williamson-Gersdorff

'Fallen Leaf' RB- ( E. B. Williamson-Charles Gersdorff, R. 1931). AB, DMB, low height, Early bloom. Pink to red-toned bitone, feathered, medium. I. korolkowii X DB. Williamson and Gersdorff, 1931. [31 chr.]

Also listed in MDB web: 'Fallen Leaf'.

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From The Court Of Iris catalog, 1955: FALLEN LEAF (Williamson '31) E 15" (Korolkowi X Dwarf Bearded). This novel Iris has narrow pointed flowers after the manner of its Regelia parent. The standards are reddish wine deepening into claret-maroon in the falls which have an almost black signal set with a bronze beard. $1.25.
From Supplement To The Comprehensive Checklist of Aril and Arilbred Iris by Sharon McAllister, April 2000: FALLEN LEAF AB (E. B. Williamson & C. E. Gersdorff, R. 1931). Sdlg # NIA. DMB, low height, early. I. korolkowii X DB. AIS Color Class: S9M (red squalens with bitone pattern). '76 CL: Pink to red-toned bitone, feathered, medium. Rainbow: "Pointed regelia-like flowers with long, narrow falls. Standards reddish-wine; falls claret-maroon, becoming almost black around the decorative golden-bronze beard." Vallette: "slender twisty dark maroon." Williamson & Gersdorff, 1931. Notes: Counted as a 31-chromosome triploid, an RB in the quantum system, an RB- in the chromosome-set system. Ref: AIS '39, p. 220; ASI '76, p. 34; ASI '78 YB, p. 64; Vallette, p. 171.

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