Re: Re: pallida blue

Quick question.  I've had the impression that the "pink" pallidas may behave this way as well, as it seems that I've seen solid "pinks" listed as being from plicata parents; however, I don't remember details, and I have recorded no documentation.  Could it be something tied to I. pallida genetics as apposed to the particular shade of anthocyanin pigmentation?  I may be way mistaken, but it seems to me that I. pallida may be the only bearded species with this shade of "rosy" pink?  Except in color, they are basically identical to "blue" cultivars such as 'Floridor', 'Odoratissima' and 'Dalmatica'.
 
'Aphrodite', 'Dogrose', 'Pink Opal', 'Rheingauperle', 'Susan Bliss', 'Thais', etc. are of this basic "pink" color, but I can't find any "pink" cultivars that are documented as having been wild collected.
 
Dave
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Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 8:52 AM
Subject: [iris-species] Re: pallida blue

An intersting fact re pallida blue. This particular shading of blue as seen in the regular  pallida varities is quite unique in colour.
Sass and Randolph both had blue seedlings from crosses with plicata parentage on both sides and had these solid blue seedlings,  sometimes with white lines around beard but not always. These blue as a parent produced plicata  seedlings in numbers confiming them as being a plicata genotype. The blue colour seemed to be the same as pallida blue. The paticular plicata genotype so affected was pla pla pl plu. 

If indeed this is the blue colour pigment as seen in pallida then it acts different in some respects then other blue pigments.

Chuck Chapman

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