Re: HYB: Yellow Plicatas? (was Mystery Irises)
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Yellow Plicatas? (was Mystery Irises)
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:57:45 -0600
> From: storylade@aol.com
>
> << Most cultivars with this type of color pattern, such as JOYCE TERRY,
> FRINGE OF GOLD, and FIRST INTERSTATE are not plicatas. >>
>
> In the beginning, I didn't think of these as plicatas. Still don't for
that
> matter. However, another hybridizer, with much more experience than I,
said
> they were!? Another "truth" disputed. What class are the yellow/white
> plicata appearing iris? Also the ringed orange/pink?
Betty,
I don't know that there is a specific term, like "plicata", "glaciata", or
"amoena", for the color pattern in question, i.e., carotenoid pigment
(yellow-orange-pink) in the standards and forming a smooth band or rim
around the white-centered falls.
The descriptions of some of them are as follows:
JOYCE TERRY - S. yellow; F. white, edged yellow.
FRINGE OF GOLD - S. deep canary yellow; F. white, rich golden tones
radiating from beard qnd hafts into 1/4" rim.
LIGHT BEAM - S. solid lemon; F. white ground stitched bright lemon.
FIRST INTERSTATE - Brilliant yellow standards, hafts and fall rims; white
falls.
> and are the pink
> ground, purple marked irises not plicatas either?
Pink ground irises with purplish plicata markings, such as RANCHO ROSE, are
true plicatas. I was only questioning the "plicata" designation of irises
in which there was no anthocyanin pigment in the markings as well as the
ground color.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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