What constitutes a picotee?

[David Clulow]

The Royal Horticultural Society's Dictionary of Gardening defines a picotee as: "Picotee - applied to flowers with a thin band of contrasting colour at the edge of each petal".  Note the word thin.  Yasmin, most of your recent photos could in no way be called picotees, they are bi-colours.  Here are some photos of picotees. The one I sent last week and also of 'Super Noble Concubine' which could just about be called a picotee, however, if the edge colouring was any wider it would be a bi-colour and not a picotee.

[Mark Dimmitt]

No single organization has the authority to dictate the definition of picotee, but in common usage the majority of horticulturists use the term for a narrow edge of color on WHITE or at least pale petals. Two colors on the same flower is more often called a bicolor, while white and another color are usually not. I have not seen anyone try to determine what "narrow" means, but I agree that Yasmin's flower needs to be called some other description. I myself would not call it a bicolor either.

 

 

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[David Clulow]

When I was a child I used to grow border carnations and I think the first flower which hooked me onto them was a superb semi-double white with a pencil picotee callee 'Eva'.   However, if you look at any canation show schedule you will see classes for white ground picotees and different classes for yellow ground picotees.

2009/11/8 Mark Dimmitt <madi...@earthlink.net>