Re: Re: HYB: another umbrata

Brock  -- "Umbrata" is the description given to an iris having a darker patch, usually of the same color, in -- again usually -- the upper center of the falls.  It's from the Latin "umbra", meaning shadow.  I don't recall who started using it to describe this effect in irises  --  maybe Linda Mann?  --  but it seems appropriate to me.   --  Griff
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: E*@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 3:50 PM
Subject: [iris-photos] Re: HYB: another umbrata

I'm sorry to ask a stupid question, but what is an umbrata? Does it just mean a smoothly blended banded fall? Or a "fall blot" like 'Gothic Lord', 'Let's Romp', and 'Who's A Toff'?

Thank-you for humoring me.

Brock

--- In iris-photos@yahoogroups.com, Linda Mann <lmann@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Griff.
>
> Here's one of mine. FEEDBACK X STUNNING. Look at that wretched
> foliage. Narrow, short, avg size bloom, little substance. In spite of
> wretched foliage, it has grown pretty well and has been a reliable
> bloomer. & it does make pollen. So I've kept it, and maybe one of
> these days, I'll have something I want to cross it with.
>
> I keep wanting something in a TB that will <look> like a pumila spot -
> don't really care whether or not it's genetically the same.
>
> After a week with no rain, relatively low humidity, and sun, new foliage
> is out and most everything looks much better. Even have a few pods that
> made it thru the deluge.
>
> Linda Mann
> TN
>

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