ORIGINATOR: Schreiner

INTRODUCED: 1955

CLASS: Tall Bearded

HEIGHT: 40"

BLOOM SEASON: Mid to Late

DESCRIPTION: Plicata, yellow and cinnamon-tan.

PARENTAGE: Rodeo x Frolic

AWARDS: None

INTERESTING INFO: An earlier registration of Firetail in 1950 was never introduced; the name was transfered to this.

From its introductory 1955 Iris Lover's Catalog: The highest development to date in yellow plicatas. An extraordinarily clean yellow with trim plicata margins of cinnamon tan. A seedling of Frolic and Rodeo, it has the giant size and stamina of Rodeo without the latter's open standards. Firetail is the first plicata of giant size to combine an overall yellow coloring with the novel bronzy picoteeing that characterizes this interesting color class. An imposing Iris of unusual finish and landscape value. $15.00