Iris virginica 'Contraband Girl'

Dennis Kramb dkramb@badbear.com
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:56:54 PDT
I've never heard it called a Louisiana.  The 'Contraband Girl' that I've
seen in commerce in recent years is definitely a virginica.  That PBS photo
is a virginica.

Dennis in Cincinnati


On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:32 AM, David Pilling <david@pilling.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There was an email to the PBS web site from Paul Archer concerning the
> photo of Iris virginica 'Contraband Girl' on this wiki page:
>
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/
> BeardlessIrisesThree#virginica
>
> or as non-mangled URL:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/mokrxh8/
>
> Paul says:
>
> > This iris was registered as as a Louisiana Iris.
> > Is Registration incorrect or is picture labelled incorrect?
> > Hard to say from looking at picture if is one or the other,
> > except that LA's don't usually have much anthocyanin striping
> > in their yellow signals, whereas this picture does.
> > A google search pulls it up both ways with a similar looking photo.
>
> Would any Iris experts like comment?
>
>
> --
> David Pilling
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