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Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 11:45
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Subject: [iris-photos] Re: HYB:
extracting pigment
Linda, regarding the question of "red" about
Lycopene, I enclose the following to illustrate what I have said on Iris-talk
in response to the companion thread to this one.
This seedling is from Lotus
Land X (P 1-9:Swingtown x Romantic Evening), and is numbered
tentatively
R 60-yel3
This seedling, with its missing
standard, displays a very red beard simply because it contains both Lycopene
as intensely as a beard can, and a slight influence of violet pigment, showing
in the fall just at the edge of the beard, cooling the "hot" color of Lycopene
to something very close to spectrum red in the same manner as suggested by Don
Spoon.
The blue beard of Swingtown is
expressed intensely in P 1-9 (a sib to POWER WOMAN) and carries over into
this seedling in a delicate tone.
The array of sibs is fascinating, the
majority having a red-violet tone, some rather rough, one a quite good flower,
although the form is a little out of date. Then there is one seedling
with disasterously awful form, but utterly fascinating color. The
standards are light violet with a rim of rose (the result of orange-pink or
warm yellow banding of the standard), and the falls are red violet
with a blue beard. Not only is the flower laced, but it just glows
with color. If only! That form is ugly and ruins the
effect.
Neil Mogensen z 7 western NC
mountains
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