Re: Limit term VARIEGATION to foliage
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Limit term VARIEGATION to foliage
- From: E* G* <e*@moose.ncia.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:31:02 -0700 (MST)
In a message dated 97-01-09 17:30:16 EST, I wrote:
>
><< I just received my first copy of the "Anything But Green" aka A.B.G
> newsletter today.
Brad K. responded:
>The use of the term variegation to describe both foliage and flower is TOO
>CONFUSING. When I use the term variegated it only applies to foliage and
>when I'm talking about a variegated pattern of color in the flower I use the
>term "broken color" (BC).
Absolutely, I agree. I realized that about an hour after I posted
my message. :-( Since no one had replied, I decided to let it die
on its own...I should have gone back on-line and further explained
that 'Anything but Green' deals with "....yellow, purple and other
*leaf* color variations" (James Waddick, editor).
>Allan Ensminger has developed a breedling line for both broken color flowers
>and variegated foliage, but unfortunately, he uses variegated to describe
>both. It is too hard to keep the topic straight using his approach. The
>four iris listed above have broken color flowers not variegated foliage.
> Color breaking, broken color, is use in the World of Iris to describe random
>streaks, splashes or peppering of color in the flower. It will make
>communicating a lot easier if we all agree on the use of descriptive terms.
In my enthusiasm to share my first issue of this interesting Journal
of the Variegated Plant Enthusiasts' Group, I got sloppy about
explaining what I was talking about. It happened once before. :-))
>Wishing I had a snow cover, Brad Kasperek ZEBRAIRIS@aol.com
What? No Utah ski vacations for this family in Feb. with no snow. :-)
Ellen Gallagher "Snow covers the garden. The gardener
e_galla@moose.ncia.net forgets the struggle."
USDA Zone 3
Lancaster, New Hampshire, USA
