Iris virginica 'Contraband Girl'
Sean Zera (Tue, 10 Mar 2015 08:29:05 PDT)
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:
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/
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