Florence (Firenze)

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.

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The record

Each field carries its evidence: open a chip for the source, the quoted words and the confidence. A field with nothing behind it says so and stays empty.

Place

Florence (Firenze)

documented

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

the place name as the harvest globe’s data spells it; the Wikidata item is Q2044 (Florence)

confidence A

Region

Chianti and Pratomagno, in Tuscany

documented

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.

GC-4 · Crișan I · read 2026-09-30

the areas GC-4 names for today’s Italian orris; its tonnages are estimates and are not shown

confidence B

Country

Italy

documented

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Coordinates

43.77139, 11.25417 (a representative point for the city (Wikidata P625), not a field; the growing areas on record are Chianti and Pratomagno)

documented

Wikidata Q2044 (Florence) P625

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Time zone

Europe/Rome

documented

IT +4154+01229 Europe/Rome

TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); pu · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Traditions

irises grown by hand as an intercrop in vineyards and olive orchards, on narrow, steep plots; the iris is Florence’s emblem

documented

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.

GC-4 · Crișan I · read 2026-09-30

and “The city of Florence in Italy retains the Iris flower as its emblem” (GC-4)

confidence B

Harvest, as a source states it

Grows here

• Iris pallida Lam.

Harvest and processing here

• digging of the rhizomes (harvest): the plants are dug up entirely; the rhizomes are sold whole, peeled or sliced
  documented

  In the summer of the third year, the plants are dug up entirely, and rhizomes are sold to the extraction companies as whole rhizomes, peeled or sliced [108].

  GC-4 · Crișan I · read 2026-09-30

  a review (secondary witness), citing the industry’s own descriptions

  confidence B

  ; when: in the summer of the third year
  documented

  In the summer of the third year, the plants are dug up entirely, and rhizomes are sold to the extraction companies as whole rhizomes, peeled or sliced [108].

  GC-4 · Crișan I · read 2026-09-30

  confidence B

  record

Films and plates

• OR-9 · iris (orris): the origin film (the field to the bench) · queued: the master queue lists OR-9 as queued (the render queue’s list, read 2026-09-30); no path until it is rendered and published
  a render-time texture (Brown Mud Leaves 01; a render input only): "Brown Mud Leaves 01", Rob Tuytel (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0; a render-time texture (Bark Willow 02; a render input only): "Bark Willow 02", Charlotte Baglioni (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0

Sources

1. GC-4 · Crișan I. The Genus Iris Tourn. ex L.: Updates on Botany, Cultivation, Novel Niches and Impactful Applications. Plants (Basel) 2025;14(18):2870. DOI 10.3390/plants14182870. PMID 41012022. PMCID PMC12473546. doi.org/10.3390/plants14182870 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY (open access, MDPI, as the article states); short quotes only, the text is not filed
2. GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to the English Wikipedia article of each place; wbgetentities API, read 2026-09-27. Values rounded to 5 decimals by the fetch script; representative points (city, region or country centroid), not field locations. www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&… · read 2026-09-27 · CC0 1.0 (Wikidata data licence)
3. TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); public domain. data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/zone.tab · read 2026-09-27 · public domain

These records are published under CC BY 4.0.

this record as data: /data/origin/florence-it.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence B