HYB: flat style

Ok gang,
   
  I'm on the hunt again... for new quarry.
   
  T'other day while working a flat cross on FROSTICO I noticed that this cultivar has a lot of material on the styles.  Actually to my eye it had nearly 1 1/2 styles to each fall.  In the here and now I can't remember if that included stigmatic lips, but it was at the very least a lot of overlap across the vertical seam of the styles.
   
  Now I have been a fan of 'fancy' styles for a couple seasons now; fringed, lobed, striped, etc.  So at first I just classified these styles as 'fancy' and moved my tweezers on down the row.  But before to long I was working another flat motivated cross and happened to notice that SPLASH OF RASPBERRY  has lobed styles (very similar to FIMBRIATED SPACE), and the next flat cross RASPBERRY WINE has so much flesh on the style that it's almost like a butterfly perched on the back of the style.  Or you could describe it as like seam allowance in sewing. 
   
  Then I actually walked around and looked and all of the flats that are in bloom have over lap across the vertical seam, or this butterfly/seam allowance.  Which got me thinking...maybe this is an expression of latent/recessive flat potential.   
   
  So, I was hoping for some help.  I need to acquire a number of cultivars whose pedigrees do not suggest flat but which have these 'fancy' styles to run some test crosses.
   
  Here is a list of what I am blooming that has this type of styles as a reference in case my description doesn't already make it clear what I've observed. (if I can organise husband and camera maybe I can post a sequence of photos over the weekend)  Many of these are already part of the flat program so you can assume these have a pedigree which suggests flat
   
  'seam allowance':
  SILVERADO
  INDIGO PRINCESS
  RASPBERRY WINE
  ORIENTAL ETCHING
  CUT CRYSTAL
  SCORPIO
  SPACE VIKING
  EVERYTHING PLUS
  HALO IN PINK
  REBOUND
   
  overlap:
  SWAZI PRINCESS
  GNUS FLASH
  FROSTICO
   
  As a 'normal' baseline (not what I'm looking for)
  THORNBIRD
  McKELLARS GROVE 
  DRESDEN DANCER
  HUCKLEBERRY FUDGE
   
  christian
  ky

			
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