Re: Luminatas, etc., etc.

Patrick, you're working too hard!  Of course High Master's picture shows
the paler edge...that is one of the definitions of a luminata (to some
degree or another).

There are various genetic factors which suppress pigments.  The "I" --
dominant white -- factor is overall.  With Progenitor/Whole Cloth
derivatives, there is a factor which inhibits the anthocyanins in the
standards but not the falls....usually...tho irises like Emma Cook (or
Queen's Circle)  show that the inhibition can be extended almost all the
way to the very edge of the fall.

The so-called imbricata effect give us reverse anthocyanin bicolors,
darker standards than falls.  Is this an inhibition of the fall pigments
or a boost of the standards pigments?

As for luminatas with pink standards, magenta-luminata falls....we have
them now (in seedling patches)....thanks to the Progenitor factor
inhibiting the antho pigments in the standards.  So, Irisdude, give us a
real challenge, not a piece of cake!

Casbah was introduced more than twenty years ago, possibly the first of
the bicolor luminata-plicatas.  We've come a long ways since then.
Someone once asked me why AIS did away with color-coding all new
registrations, and changing from color-coded to cultivar shows.  After
thinking a minute, I said I thought it was the hybridizers' fault:  we
have made things so complex, throwing so many different colors and
patterns together into the same flower, that coding became impossible to
implement.

Keith Keppel, Salem, OR -- where it is finally dry enough I can get out
on all fours and WEED!!!

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