mixed-up iris was Re: Gerald Darby ?

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Hopefully now with the AIS Iris wiki there will be all sorts of pictures, flowers, leaves, stems, seed pods. You're right. Currently they are not often seen in pictures.

--- In i*@yahoogroups.com, Diane Whitehead <voltaire@...> wrote:
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> On 6-Dec-10, at 5:57 PM, Polly wrote:
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> > Now that we've got the internet, and the new hybrids are being
> > posted as soon as they are introduced, it should help with that
> > problem.
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> I'm not so sure. The photos are often just of the flower.
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> A proper botanic drawing shows all aspects of a plant: root, leaf,
> bud, flower, stamens, ovary, seed pod, seeds etc. How often are any
> of these shown clearly enough in a photograph that it can be used for
> identification?
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> The registration documents for some plants are very precise. They
> require measurements and the use of standardized colour descriptions.
> I have never registered an iris, so I don't know how much detail is
> required in an iris registration.
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> The irises I am most familiar with, Pacific Coast hybrids, rarely have
> any mention of the leaves in their descriptions, and yet the leaves
> can vary considerably. However, I don't know whether the published
> descriptions are complete. Has SPCNI just excerpted the flower part
> of the official descriptions in the registration documents?
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> Diane Whitehead
> Victoria B.C. Canada
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