Photo Courtesy of Brighton Park Iris

ORIGINATOR: Schreiner INTRODUCED: 1948 CLASS: Tall Bearded HEIGHT: 36" BLOOM SEASON: Mid to Late DESCRIPTION: S. dark purple, F. rich velvety purple with white veining around beard; beards dark gold, purple at near the the tip. PARENTAGE: Sable x their own lines of dark irises. AWARDS: None INTERESTING INFO: From the 1948 Schreiner’s Iris Lovers Catalog: Another new addition to the very dark colored Iris, Velvet Dusk is a descendant of Sable and carries the coloring of that family of darks with a rich glisten like the glow and sheen of a piece of black fur. The good-sized flowers are carried on well-branched stems. The bloom is full, well flared and rounded. Its form seems as if chiseled and the sonorous dull bluish brown beard is in fitting harmony with the flower. Later blooming than Sable.