After being away, I am catching up on the messages here. Last month I
offered a post responding to several unpleasant comments regarding orchid
judges, color blindness, and suggestions for mandatory termination of old
judges. I am not a senior citizen, but I found the age discrimination
es
Yes. There is a great problem: Reds do not only come from anthocyanins.
There are actually three main classes of pigment: Porphyrins, Flavonoids, and
Carotenoids.
Anthocyanins are in a larger pigment class called Flavonoids. Anthocyanins are
actually a type of pigment compounds. Compounds incl
Title: Color.
So much writing for something relatively unimportant. It doesn't matter what the AOS judges say (or at least any small group of same), they are generally considered to horticulturally authoritative rather than scientifically so.
Horticulturally, we call any orchid lacking the a
Bill,
I would like to see this publication, any idea of the volume and issue?
To everyone else out there:
Those color forms, while useful to the AOS judges, seem to be a stereotype of a
slightly more complex subject. If you wish to limit your horticultural savvy to
the level of understanding p
trust this one gets through..none of my submissions lately have made it...In
an old issue of the AOS bulletin the color issue pertaining to alba was
written up in detail...According to the rules as of then, alba meant a LACK
of the pigment to color the flower purple...and nothing else...of cours
Is C. walkeriana alba a cc white or an rr white?
Thanks,
Iris
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