{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "florence-it",
 "type": "Origin",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "GC-4",
  "GEO-1",
  "TZ-1"
 ],
 "notes": "harvest_windows: empty on purpose. GC-4 says the plants are dug up \"in the summer of the third year\" (docs/sources/GC-4-crisan-2025-genus-iris.md:22): a season, no months, so no window is drawn.",
 "place": {
  "value": "Florence (Firenze)",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:264",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the place name as data/1b/harvest.json spells it; the Wikidata item is Q2044 (Florence)"
 },
 "region": {
  "value": "Chianti and Pratomagno, in Tuscany",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-4-crisan-2025-genus-iris.md:25",
  "quote": "Notable orris productions come from Morocco, with an estimated production of 120 tons of I. germanica annually; China, with about 100 tons of I. pallida; France, with about 40 tons of I. pallida; and Italy, once the hallmark of orris production but now limited to the areas of Chianti and Pratomagno in Tuscany, where less than 30 tons is produced annually.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "the areas GC-4 names for today’s Italian orris; its tonnages are estimates and are not shown"
 },
 "country": {
  "value": "Italy",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:265",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "coordinates": {
  "lat": 43.77139,
  "lon": 11.25417,
  "precision": "a representative point for the city (Wikidata P625), not a field; the growing areas on record are Chianti and Pratomagno",
  "ref": "Wikidata Q2044 (Florence) P625",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:268",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "tz": {
  "value": "Europe/Rome",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "TZ-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:271",
  "quote": "IT\t+4154+01229\tEurope/Rome",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "harvest_windows": [],
 "traditions": {
  "value": "irises grown by hand as an intercrop in vineyards and olive orchards, on narrow, steep plots; the iris is Florence’s emblem",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-4-crisan-2025-genus-iris.md:19",
  "quote": "In Italy, with a long tradition of cultivating these plants, irises were grown as an intercrop in vineyards and olive orchards and established on narrow and steep plots of land for which mechanization is unsuitable.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "and “The city of Florence in Italy retains the Iris flower as its emblem” (docs/sources/GC-4-crisan-2025-genus-iris.md:16)"
 },
 "botanicals": [
  "iris-pallida"
 ],
 "media": [
  "or-9-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-iris",
  "globe": "/materials#global-origins",
  "map": "/materials#world-map",
  "harvest_table": "/materials#global-origins"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Florence stands for Tuscan orris: the iris is the city’s emblem, and the growing areas on record today are Chianti and Pratomagno.",
  "body": [
   "The irises were grown by hand among vines and olives on narrow, steep plots. They are dug in the summer of the third year; no months are on record, so no season is drawn. The point on the globe is Wikidata’s point for the city, not a field."
  ]
 }
}