CULT: lets talk about browns and brokens

(what is the proper greeting for opening a post....?)

A while back some of y'all were on one of those really technical discussions
about the structure of color as expressed in iris, I think it might have
been on plicata...  and someone said something to the effect of  'browns and
blacks are really multiple layers of colors... but I won't go into that now'

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?

I was also wondering what has been decided/ hypothesized about broken color
irises?  They appear to have some layering happening, but are they an
expression of plicata or something entirely different?

(My computer is not allowing me to do anything online beyond e'mail, so I
can't just look it up in the archives....)

Isn't it funny how we pick the same type of flowers over and over?  I was
noticing that all the plicatas that I have ordered individually all have
'solid' standards and edged falls....  the only one I have that doesn't fit
that description is JESSE'S SONG who came as part of a set and I just don't
like as well... Aren't I funny.

Christian
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