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 > http://www.davidpilling.com/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >