Iris dabashanensis Caryopteris The narrow green foliage is

The narrow green foliage is a foil to the bright

While the leaves on this tight clumper eventually turn green as the weather warms

it has been a miserable failure in tissue culture

From late summer

Iris dabashanensis Caryopteris The narrow green foliage isWe are thrilled to offer the very rare, South Central Chinese native Iris dabashanensis, which looks far more like an evergreen ornamental grass than an iris. It's a story of confusion, however, that goes back to the 1800s. For years, this iris was cultivated by collectors as Iris henryi, but it turned out to be incorrectly identified and was actually an un named species, hailing from the alkaline soil woodlands of Daba Mountain. Thanks to the work of