Henhouse said:
I'm skeptical about Pep Rally.. Seems more like a plicata to me.. And there are a few I have that I suspect are Luminatas that didn't come up in the database search.
Luminatas are derived from plicata breeding. They are basically plicatas in reverse. Instead of having a light ground color with anthocyanin pigment concentrated along the edges of the petals as in plicatas, in luminatas the ground color mostly shows at the edges of the petals and the heart of the flower. Of course, as with the other "flower patterns" listed in the database, there are plenty of irises that don't fit neatly into the boxes we make up for them. Pep Rally is one, but there are others. They are sometimes described as "lumi-plics" in catalogs.
Which luminatas do you have that don't show up in a database search?
I'd guess less than 20% of the entries in the Iris Database are "done" in the sense that every bit of information that could be added to them, has been. Flower Patterns, in particular, have to be added manually because there's no official source for that information. Nor should there be, it's not like AIS has attempted to determine what is or isn't a luminata, for example. Iris flower patterns (and hybridizers
) are too diverse for any standardized system to really work. We decided to include flower patterns in the Iris Database as a search aid, nothing more (well, it might serve as an educational tool as well).
