HIST: CAT: Reliable Sources of Historic Irises
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- Subject: HIST: CAT: Reliable Sources of Historic Irises
- From: h*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:56:45 EDT
Regarding the question of whether these descriptions could conceivably be
correct:
<<2 'WABASH', 1 had violet self with violet falls, second had pale blue self,
violet falls with wrong shape, pale yellow beard.>>
There is a photo of WABASH on the HIPS page at
http://www.worldiris.com/public_html/Frame_pages/QFix.html.
It is a purple amoena, that is it has white standards and blue/violet falls
with some haft veination. Yellow beard, darker in throat.
I have not heard of WABASH blooming as a self of any color due to climatic or
local growing conditions.
<<1 'MOMENTUM' self and falls may be correct, but beard is white should be
violet.>>
MOMENTUM (Dunn, 1986) is described in the 1989 Check List as a white ground
plicata stitched shades of blue. Beard is described as violet. Note that
beard color for registration purposes is the color of the beard in the throat
of the flower.
Anner Whitehead
Commercial Source Chairman
Historic Iris Preservation Society,AIS
HIPSource@aol.com
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