i moved into an old brick rural NC farm house and these were here alongside some violet iris pallida..these amas were apparently planted ...Read Morehere by an elderly women back in the late 1950's. they arent as tall as the pallida 'violet sweet iris' but very beautiful contrast and also an even older heirloom iris variety too..just beautiful...mike
Amas is of Asiatic origin........................an early blooming Germanica Tall Bearded.
Other names it is has been kno...Read Morewn by are: Amasia, Amos, Artindale, Macrantha, William Tell, and William III. First mentioned in 1885 - being called Amasia at that time.
Collected in Turkey in the mid-1800s; (some sources indicate it by Foster and pinpoint the year as 1885); a tetraploid used extensively i...Read Moren Iris breeding.
Foster, collected 1885
i moved into an old brick rural NC farm house and these were here alongside some violet iris pallida..these amas were apparently planted ...Read More
Amas is of Asiatic origin........................an early blooming Germanica Tall Bearded.
Other names it is has been kno...Read More
Amas is a very hardy plant
Collected in Turkey in the mid-1800s; (some sources indicate it by Foster and pinpoint the year as 1885); a tetraploid used extensively i...Read More