Irises: Luminatas, 1 by laurief

laurief wrote:
Wanda,

'Alcazar' does not fit the description of a luminata. According to The World of Irises, a luminata is described as, "In luminatas the pigment [in specific reference to anthocyanin pigments - blues and lavenders] is in the center of the petal with the edges often unpigmented; the hafts and style arms are unpigmented or essentially so. The pigmentation of the petal is usually not uniform, but marbled, being lighter or absent over the veins, as exemplified by Moonlit Sea."

And on page 101 of the same book, describing the first known luminatas, "In 1940 and 1941 the Sass seedling fields began to yield a strange new pattern, one with style arms white or yellow, hafts immaculate white or yellow, but the remainder of the flower washed with color, with paler veins."

Luminatas by definition can not have dark haft markings like 'Alcazar' displays. 'Pretty Pansy' pictured below is one of the earliest introduced luminatas.

Laurie