Re: HYB: color (was Cult: lets talk)

Christian, my reply has nothing to do with broken color, but I have been
wondering what is meant when people talk about color being in <layers>.
And my reply is a bit delayed thanks to the phone company taking nearly
a week to get my phone line patched back where it corroded thru.  Life
in the country.

I'm confused as to whether this means that the actual color occurs in
layers, as in different layers of cells, or if the pigments are
<layered> in the cells, where cell sap soluble pigments literally would
surround and layer above and below pigments in plastids.

When talking with Neil, I realized I have no idea how many cell layers
are in an iris petal and whether or not all or just some of those cells
contain pigments.  Same thing for patterns - are the pigments in some
layers affected & not in others?

So much to learn, so little time, and so dratted little memory any more!

<So when I was going through my notebook this week lining up my p's and
q's I
                   noticed the description (as it appears in my notes)
of CHOCOLATE MARMALADE
                   includes: "F. dark burnt orange chocolate rim
blending from orange to yellow
                   to white at beard".
                   The way I read is, white ground with yellow plic
markings, covered by orange
                   plic markings, covered by burnt chocolate orange
markings.  In essence three
                   layers of plicata markings on what would otherwise be
a white fall...

                   Is this kinda what you meant when you said the browns
and blacks were layers
                   of color? Christian>

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