Re: Beard colours

From: Paul & Yvonne Tyerman <tyerman@dynamite.com.au>

At 02:19 21/07/98 -0600, you wrote:
>From: Marte Halleck <MorJHalleck@worldnet.att.net>
>
>Here we have the many pitfalls of trying to ID plants based on word
>descriptions or color photographs, no matter how "true" the latter are.
>For example, the photo of EW on the HIPS website
>http://www.worldiris.com/public_html/Frame_pages/QFix.html
>is excellent & certainly looks just like the EW blooms I've seen tagged
>as such in real gardens as well as most (not all) of the photos offered
>as EW in current iris catalogs. But no way would I describe the beard in
>that photo as being "blue, tipped orange" -- I'd have to say it's old
>gold or orangish-gold with the merest hint of blue-violet on the lower
>(downward-pointing) portion of the beard (which *to me* is the part
>referred to as "tipped" a different color from the rest of a beard.
>Correct or not?)
>

My understanding of "Blue tipped orange" when relating to the beard is that
each individual hair of the beard is blue with an orange tip.  This, a
photo of that beard would predominantly show as orange unless the photo
happened to catch the beard from the side where the blue could be seen
undeneath.  As far as I know the tip has nothing to do with the "bottom
part of the beard" but is rather the tip of each hair of the beard.

So... a picture showing an iris with and orange beard with just a hint of
blue-violet could easily be a blue-violet tipped orange beard.

That's my understanding anyhow.  Someone please let me know whether this is
right as I don't "officially" know.

Cheers.....					Paul Tyerman
						t*@dynamite.com.au


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