Madame Louis Aureau Cayeux, 1934 TB 36" EM W8M, From Hoffman's Iris Garden catalog for 1956: "Standards are lovely soft rosy heliotrope on translucent silvery white ground. The falls are banded and veined at margin with the same degree of color which gradually shades toward the center." From Cooley's Gardens catalog for 1940: "This heavily dotted and sanded plicata from cayeux is a rival of the series now so popular from the Sasses. It has a ground color of silvery white, closely netted with rosy heliotrope. A very large blossom." (Fakir X Ferdinand Denis), AM 1939, French DM 1934.

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Note: At first glance you might think these are two different varieties, but closer inspection reveals the bloom in Laetitia's photo to just have a heavier flush of color than the one grown at Brooks Gardens. All of the underlying pattern and color are identical but for this. Intensity of color expression is often environmental.