As a comment about Dahlia 'Enchantress (III)', arctangent wrote:

The Dahlia World master list has ten entries under the name 'Enchantress'. This garden.org entry gives size/form/color data for that matches one of these, the one attributed to Hacek (a large red formal decorative cultivar, number III on the Dahlia World list), but most of the photos seem to be of a semi-cactus, dark blend cultivar. In the Dahlia World list, there's a similar entry (number VIII) that is attributed to Swan Island, and Dahlia Addict's entry under 'Enchantress' seems to be of the same or a similar cultivar. There is also an orange water lily form (Dahlia World number VI for 'Enchantress, attributed to Miller). This explains the different types of flower form and the different colors specified in this single garden.org entry. They describe three different cultivars!!!

This mixed database entry for 'Enchantress' is very confusing. Honestly, I don't know the best way to handle the situation short of creating different entries for the different cultivars of the same name. Somebody, help!
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Sep 1, 2020 9:06 PM CST
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I have only ever seen the Swan Island introduced "Enchantress", which are the photos shown in this database. My guess is that the other entries in the master list are long gone (stock breaks down, crappy tuber maker, something similar that was newer and better was grown instead). My guess is that if they are still around, well they are so minimally circulated that no one ever sees them.

You are spot on, though, the listing details for Enchantress are incorrect for the variety that is currently being grown and shown here.
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Sep 6, 2020 12:32 PM CST
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Hi! So I've created entries for the other nine Enchantresses so feel free to propose moving the images to the entries you feel are correct.
Dahlia 'Enchantress (I)'
Dahlia 'Enchantress (II)'
Dahlia 'Enchantress (III)' This is the original entry.
Dahlia 'Enchantress (IV)'
Dahlia 'Enchantress (V)'
Dahlia 'Enchantress (VI)'
Dahlia 'Enchantress (VII)'
Dahlia 'Enchantress (VIII)'
Dahlia 'Enchantress (IX)'
Dahlia 'Enchantress (X)'
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Sep 12, 2020 7:21 PM CST
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Just a heads up, this particular Enchantress was introduced in 2010 by Swan Island Dahlias (Gitts). It is also a 5 inch bloom, semi cactus form.
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