Henhouse said:
Kent, I'll have to look through my pictures and see if I can make sense from these definitions..
But offhand, I think Arctic Burst and Starship Enterprise were ones I questioned as being possibilities before.. but I see Starship Enterprise has color all around the falls, which would eliminate it. It is also listed as Emma Cook flower pattern... Now can someone explain what that is to me? :confused:
Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Arctic Burst') is an example of a relatively new pattern. I don't believe there is any consensus on what to call it, but Joe Ghio refers to it as the Line & Speckles pattern so that's how we chose to list it in the database. It can always be changed later if a consensus develops.
Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Starship Enterprise') is an example of the Emma Cook pattern. Unfortunately, its parentage is too long to fit in the parentage field so it's down in the comments section, but if you look at the parentage 'Emma Cook' is actually there, along with 'Whole Cloth' which played a very important role in the breeding of Amoenas and Emma Cook type iris.
We had a long discussion about Plicatas and the Emma Cook pattern back in the spring:
The thread "Favorite Plicatas" in
Irises forum
It's a gross oversimplification, but iris can be split into Plicatas and non-plicatas. Luminatas, Glaciatas, and the Broken pattern are derived from Plicata breeding. The other patterns (more or less, the Line & Speckles pattern has some plicata heritage behind it) are derived from non-plicata breeding. The Emma Cook pattern came out of Amoena breeding lines.
