RE: orchid as a color
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- Subject: RE: [sibrob] orchid as a color
- From: G* M*
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 07:46:37 -0600
- Importance: Normal
I show four sibs in my database with 'orchid' in the description: SPARKLING
ROSE, SPIRIT OF YORK, ROSE QUEST and GENTEEL GRAYCE. I have many other
cultivars of different species with orchid in the description.
Interestingly, it is generally qualified; rosy orchid, orchid pink, orchid
self, pastel orchid, light orchid-lavender, orchid-mauve, and LITTLE CAILLET
described as orchid blue. None are described as looking like an orchid, only
colored like an orchid.
Greg McCullough
Iris City Gardens
>
> From: Jim Sullivan <jimsullivansgarden@home.com>
>
> Hello fellow iris robin members,
> I finally have a chance to ask some people who should probably know -
> what color is the color orchid. I have come across descriptions of
> various plants having flowers described as being an orchid color and
> just now read again of an iris as having an orchid color(actually in
> Henry Mitchell's, The Essestial Earthman) . Now, I know the plants
> known as orchids come in various colors so this just adds to the
> confusion. So, I will await an answer from those who should
> know(perhaps I should know, but I don't). Are there any "orchid"
> colored siberian irises? Maybe those people who look at an obviously
> non orchid flower and exclaim, " it looks just like an orchid!" actually
> are refering to the color and aren't quite as daft as they sound. Also,
> I might add that apparently the word orchid is derived from the greek
> word, orkhis meaning testicle, but I don't think we want to get into
> that. Just a question to start off the new millenium, eh! I will
> thank all of you in advance.
> Jim in Saskatoon, Canada.
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