The correct 'Contraband Girl' was registered in 1953 as a Louisiana collected from the wild. It's described as 36" high, while the *virginica* going by the same name is said to reach 6 feet. It looks like it needs a new moniker. Sean Z On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com> wrote: > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >