Difference: IbZua (r25 vs. r24)
■(IB) 'Zua'
1914, Crawford 
'Zua' (Mrs. William Crawford, 1914) IB. Early bloom. Color Class-W1. Blue-toned white self. Sport of the white I. florentina .
Has petals with a crinkly, crêpe-paper-like texture, representing an unusual class of Novelty Iris. A blue sport called 'Blue Zua' or 'Elizabeth Huntington' shares the same texture. Note that the cultivar 'Zua' could in theory sport back to the non-creped form of Iris florentina. This may account for the two cultivars being confused in commerce.
See below:
References:
| From Wing Seed catalog, 1919: ZUA — New. Standards and falls delicate lavender, crumpled and ruffled like fine crepe. Flowers large and fragrant. Very unique. Stocks very limited. Eighteen inches. $2.00. |
| From Bonnewitz catalog, 1927: ZUA (Crawford). A light colored Iris whose standards and falls are more like silk crepe than any other variety we know. The standards are white with a delicate lilac tint and the falls have a slightly deeper lilac tint with olive-cream markings at the base. Large size bloom for the 18 inch bloom stalk which carries it. $0.75. |
| From Rainbow Hybridizing Gardens catalog 1963: ZUA VE-14". Original crepe-paper Iris, petals more crinkled & creped than in any other. An early-blooming Intermediate Iris that takes everyone's fancy. A most unusual & interesting frosty-white, flushed pale blue. Sport of Florentina. Regularly 85c; on $10 order 6c5; on $25 order 55c. |
| Galyon, F. (1952). “Dark horses” of irisdom. Bulletin of the American Iris Society, 126, 19-20. |
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 jpg | 21sept_2014_033.jpg | manage | 127 K | 27 Oct 2014 - 20:48 | Main.firecentaurr | Zua (NZ) Oct 2014 |
| jpg | 24sept_2014_004.jpg | manage | 169 K | 27 Oct 2014 - 20:49 | Main.firecentaurr | Zua Blooms (NZ) |
 pdf | Zua 1952 126_07_AIS.pdf | manage | 475 K | 19 Jul 2020 - 17:20 | Main.davepote | Exported from AIS Bulletin #126(Jul 1952), p 19-20. |
 JPG | zua02.JPG | manage | 54 K | 11 Jul 2014 - 21:43 | Main.TLaurin | Photo by Bee Warburton |
| JPG | zua03.JPG | manage | 62 K | 11 Jul 2014 - 21:48 | Main.TLaurin | Photo by Bee Warburton |
| JPG | zua04.JPG | manage | 64 K | 11 Jul 2014 - 21:46 | Main.TLaurin | Photo by Bee Warburton |
| jpg | zua1-08.jpg | manage | 96 K | 29 Nov 2015 - 20:02 | Main.mikeu | Photo by Mike Unser |
| jpg JPG | zua_copy.jpg zua9.JPG | manage | 57 91 K | 09 Nov 2010 05 Sep 2021 - 14:52 22:20 | UnknownUser Main.TLaurin | Pries photo Photo by Mary Hess-Bluebird Haven Iris Garden |
| jpg | zua_copy.jpg | manage | 57 K | 09 Nov 2010 - 14:52 | UnknownUser | Pries photo |
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