1962, Fay
'Chinese Coral' (Orville Fay, R. 1960). Seedling# 58-17. TB, 35" (89 cm). Very late bloom. Color Class-O1P. Pinkish-orange self; Chinese coral beard. ('Mary Randall' x Lapham seedling# G-20: ((seedling# H6: ('Spindrift' x 'Isabellina') x 'Premier Peach')) x (('Paradise Pink' x self)) X 'Fleeta'. Fay 1961, Moldovan 1962. Honorable Mention 1963; Award of Merit 1965.
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CHINESE CORAL (Fay '62). "A standard in apricot-orange, with the deepest most brilliant coral beard. A very healthy, well-branched, freeblooming variety that will consistently bloom every year. An important further addition it blooms late and greatly extends the season. It could use a few more ruffles; but all-in-all, a prominent advancement in the apricot-oranges." [Roger R. Nelson (Wayne, Nebraska), “An Extra Dimension” The Bulletin of the American Iris Society, No. 196, (January 1970): 8. |
CHINESE CORAL (Fay '63) was seen in two well-established clumps blooming to perfection. Each had seven stalks with two to three open flowers. The heavy stalks carry up to four branches with nine or ten buds, making a long season of bloom. Flower is well formed, large, a bright pinkish orange, almost a complete self, with only a small blaze at the tip of the amazingly huge, brilliant red beard such as noted in no other iris. Foliage shows that blue-green color of the Fay lines, a factor bred in through a cross to I. pallida many years back. [Roberts, Earl (1964). Taped Commentary on Fay Garden, American Iris Society Bulletin 174</(July 1964), 48.] |
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jpg | Chinese Coral.1961.Fay.jpg | manage | 81 K | 08 May 2020 - 15:41 | Main.davepote | Image scanned by David Potembski from Mission Gardens catalog, 1961. |
jpg JPG | ChineseCoralEI.jpg ChineseCoral01.JPG | manage | 42 82 K | 10 Dec 2012 13 Aug 2021 - 15:50 18:44 | Main.Betsy881 Main.TLaurin | Photo by Exline Mary Hess-Bluebird Haven Iris Garden |
jpg | Chinese_Coralbhi.jpg ChineseCoralEI.jpg | manage | 939 42 K | 08 Jan 2017 10 Dec 2012 - 15:07 15:50 | Main.Betsy881 | Photo from Bluebird by Exline Haven Iris Garden ex Cooley's catalog |
jpg | chinese01.jpg Chinese_Coralbhi.jpg | manage | 86 939 K | 05 Jun 2015 08 Jan 2017 - 02:23 15:07 | Main.TLaurin Main.Betsy881 | Photo by Exline from Bluebird Haven Iris Garden ex Cooley's catalog |
JPG jpg | chinesecoral01.JPG chinese01.jpg | manage | 799 86 K | 28 Mar 2016 05 Jun 2015 - 02:14 02:23 | Main.TLaurin | Photo by HIPS Archives Exline Iris Garden |
jpg JPG | chinesecoral1.jpg chinesecoral01.JPG | manage | 30 799 K | 26 Nov 2018 28 Mar 2016 - 21:47 02:14 | Main.TLaurin | Photo by Iriszkert Szasz-Hungary. HIPS Archives |
jpg | chinesecoral1.jpg | manage | 30 K | 26 Nov 2018 - 21:47 | Main.TLaurin | Photo by Iriszkert Szasz-Hungary. |