Re: Re: HYB: orange pigment extraction
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Re: HYB: orange pigment extraction
  • From: C* C* <i*@aim.com>
  • Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 08:32:44 -0400
I haven't seen much variation from cultivar to cultivar. And plastids in iris
are basicly sphere. Can have different shapes in other flowers

Not nearly as many plastids as in some other flowers. Pansies for instance
have spherecial plastids and 2-3  times a many as iris.

Grinding up  flowers and filtering  works well for pigment removal.

Intact petals can have some waxy coating and various substance  can obviously
make a difference.

Chuck Chapman










---- Original Message ----
From: Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com>
To: iris@hort.net
Sent: Fri, May 6, 2011 7:33 am
Subject: [iris] Re: HYB: orange pigment extraction


After letting HoM petal soak since I last posted questions, changing alcohol
every day or whenever I remembered to do it, nearly all of the yellow pigment
is finally out!  Yay. :-(

Looks like I've discovered a quick technique for evaluating how hard it is to
get the pigment out with alcohol ;-)  Not sure why some slurp it out so easily
while others don't.  No noticeable difference in substance between HoM and
some of the others, tho the ones with little substance do lose pigment
quickly.

Are there different distributions of plastids?

Thanks Chuck.

Linda Mann east TN USA

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