Tom,
On my monitor the midrib has a definite turqoise tint. Those I have
seen on mine were streaked on the styles rather than a solid midrib
as in your photo. Mary Lou has a great photo of one from a TB. The
color must be some kind of combination of pigments, but here I've
mainly only seen it making a sort of 'peacock's tail' on the styles
except where the color washed over the falls in a couple.
Those styles look good without the falls and standards! Maybe I
should pluck at some blooms next year and enjoy what's left :).
Donald
--- In iris-photos@yahoogroups.com, thomas silvers <tesilvers@...>
wrote:
>
> Back in April, Donald Eaves mentioned seeing turquoise
> style arms on some of his arilbred seedlings. He even
> had a seedling with nice color out on the falls. I
> mentioned that I had a seedling (diploid bearded) that
> I thought might have a similar color on the style
> arms.
>
> I don't know if it's really the same or not, but
> here's that seedling -- for discussion sake -- I've
> cross-posted to Iris-Talk, in case anyone wants to
> discuss the possibilities.
>
> On the left (biggest picture) shows the style arms
> with all of the falls removed, and one standard
> snapped down. I wasn't sure how the color would turn
> out in the picture, but on my computer it looks pretty
> accurate. The tips of the standards and the ends of
> the style arms are pale-purple (as in real life) in
> contrast to the ribs of the style arms which are at
> least less purple, more blue -- and if you're a
> dreamer, maybe even tending towards turquoise???
>
> In case the colors were off in the images, I took a
> comparison shot (upper right picture) showing three
> typical seedlings' style arms in my hand above the
> seedling in question.
>
> The bottom right picture shows those same three
> comparison seedlings with an unrelated seedling that
> shows a degree of that same coloring on the ribs of
> its style arms. I've been using pollen from this one
> on the other hoping to increase or intensify this
> effect.
>
> Any thoughts on what I'm seeing? Is it wishful
> thinking? Is there maybe a copigment that is only
> being expressed in the style arms of these particular
> seedlings? And don't be afraid to "rain on my parade",
> I can take it. ;0)
>
> Thanks, Tom
>
