(AB) 'Coquetry'

1940, Schreiner

'Coquetry' OB (Robert Schreiner, R 1940). AB, TMB, tall. Early bloom. Standards white flushed and veined lilac; Falls light lilac pink with silvery white center, pink and maroon dots. (I. gatesii x I. lortetii) X 'Midwest'. 1941. [48 chr.]

Also listed in TB web: 'Coquetry'.

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From the Introductory 1941 Schreiner's Iris Lover's Catalog: An easy-to-grow Onocyclus hybrid. About three-fourths the size of Wm. Mohr, it has more delicate dottings and markings and these colorings are on a purer white background. The standards are light blue in effect while the falls are delicately pinkish. It is larger and can be visualized as improved Some Love and for us up north it has the happy faculty of being an easy grower. The flower is daintily ruffled. It arises from a cross of the Oncocyclus hybrid Sylphyde, itself a hybrid of (Gatesii x Lortetii), crossed with the bearded variety Midwest. The flower stalk has two branches, unusual for a pogo-cyclus.
From Supplement To The Comprehensive Checklist of Aril and Arilbred Iris by Sharon McAllister, April 2000: COQUETRY AB (Robert Schreiner, R. 1940). Sdlg # NI A. TMB, tall, E. (I gatesii x I lortetii) X Midwest. AIS Color Class: W8L (white ground with light reddish feathering). '76 CL: S white flushed and veined lilac; F light lilac-pink with silvery white center, pink and maroon dots. Rainbow: "Standards cupped, white, flushed and finely veined in lilac. Falls light lilac-pink with silvery white center and fine pink and maroon dots. Beard wide, onco-like, bronze and maroon. Style crests prominent and decorative, pinkish buff." Vallette: "lovely diploid onco, netted rose, big signal patch." 1941. Notes: From the pedigree, an OB in the quantum system and an OB- in the chromosome-set system, but counted by Randolph as a 48-chromosome TB. Ref: AIS '49, p. 79; ASI '76, p. 26; ASI '78 YB, p. 64; Vallette, p. 176.
From Carl Salbach catalog 1942: COQUETRY (Schreiner 1941). An oncocyclus hybrid that is easy to grow. Standards are light blue in effect and falls are a delicate subdued pink, a characteristic of the oncocyclus. Blooms medium large and slightly ruffled. A splendid new iris. Rhizomes always small. Early. 20". $5.00.

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