From Supplement To The Comprehensive Checklist of Aril and Arilbred Iris by Sharon McAllister, April 2000: SHUSHAN AB (Sir Michael Foster, BRS). Seedling # NIA. TMB, tall, bloom season NIA. (LI paradoxa x I iberica) X I variegata. AIS Color Class: S9D (red squalens with bitone pattern). '76 CL: Dark red blend. Rainbow: "Light buff and deep golden buff, with occasional purple marblings." Vallette: "deep brownish buff, flushed metallic purple." J. Wallace, 1913. Notes: Name approved; counted as a 22-chromosome diploid, an OB in both systems. Ref: AIS '39, p. 494; ASI '76, p. 77; Vallette, p. 179. |