{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "iris-pallida",
 "type": "Botanical",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "GBIF-1",
  "GC-4"
 ],
 "notes": "GC-4 reports the Tuscan I. pallida as mostly male-sterile plants of a distinct type (cited to Bini and Maugini); not a named cultivar, not recorded as one.",
 "latin_name": {
  "value": "Iris pallida Lam.",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GBIF-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/step7/gbif/gbif-Iris_pallida.usage.json:23",
  "quote": "\"scientificName\": \"Iris pallida Lam.\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the accepted name in the GBIF Backbone (usage 5298086)"
 },
 "common_name": {
  "value": "iris; its rhizome is the trade’s orris",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-4-crisan-2025-genus-iris.md:13",
  "quote": "Notably, this species is the basis of industrial orris in Tuscany, and other species (such as I. germanica) are also cultivated for these purposes, mostly in other countries.",
  "confidence": "B"
 },
 "family": {
  "value": "Iridaceae",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GBIF-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/step7/gbif/gbif-Iris_pallida.usage.json:9",
  "quote": "\"family\": \"Iridaceae\"",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "part_used": {
  "value": "the rhizome",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-4-crisan-2025-genus-iris.md:37",
  "quote": "Irone is the name given to a mixture of C14 monocyclic ketones obtained from the rhizomes of some Iris species, namely I. florentina, I. germanica and I. pallida.",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "dug whole in the summer of the third year and sold whole, peeled or sliced (docs/sources/GC-4-crisan-2025-genus-iris.md:22)"
 },
 "cultivars": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no cultivar is named in a filed source; GC-4’s Tuscan type (male-sterile, paler-flowered) is not a named cultivar"
 },
 "origins": [
  {
   "origin": "florence-it",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GC-4",
   "where": "docs/sources/GC-4-crisan-2025-genus-iris.md:13",
   "quote": "Notably, this species is the basis of industrial orris in Tuscany, and other species (such as I. germanica) are also cultivated for these purposes, mostly in other countries.",
   "note": "Tuscany; the Florence point is the page’s and Wikidata’s, the growing areas GC-4 names are Chianti and Pratomagno",
   "confidence": "B"
  }
 ],
 "materials": [
  {
   "material": "orris-butter",
   "extraction": "steam-distillation"
  }
 ],
 "media": [
  "spec-iris",
  "or-9-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-iris",
  "card": "/materials#naturals"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Iris pallida Lam., of the family Iridaceae, is the iris behind Tuscan orris. The scent is in the rhizome, not the flower.",
  "body": [
   "A review of the genus has the rhizomes dug whole in the summer of the third year, then peeled and dried slowly for about three more years before they are distilled."
  ]
 }
}