1: EDGED SHOW AURICULAS

a)
The pip should be round and flat. The individual petals should be blunt* and not rounded or pointed, of even size, with a smooth periphery, free from notches, of good substance and overlap sufficiently to give the desired circular appearance. The four bands should be of equal "weight", no one dominating or receding. The size is of secondary importance but the pips should be neither too large or too small. Green-edges should be an optimum diameter of 32 mm. with Grey-edges slightly smaller and White-edges slightly smaller again.
b)
The tube width should not exceed one-fourth the diameter of the pip, be round, smooth-edged, golden or rich yellow in colour, of a waxy substance and well up to the plane of the pip.
c)
The anthers should be fresh and bold, of the same colour as and evenly set around, but not protruding from, the top of the tube. They should curve inwards to meet over and obscure the lower tube.
d)
The pistil must not be visible among or above the anthers or the plant is disqualified.
e)
The paste should be circular with clear-cut edges, the outer edge a half of the pip's diameter. The paste should be brilliant white, smooth, dense and free from blemishes and cracks.
f)
The body, or ground colour should be solid and circular where it meets the paste, its outer edge should extend to no more than three fourths the pip's diameter, feathered finely into the outer zone, but not extending to the pip's periphery. The body may be of any colour providing it is bright, rich, unshaded and free from meal. Darker colours should appear velvety.
g)
The edge or outer zone may be green, grey or white according to the class. If green-edged it should be of an even shade, bright and free from meal. Grey-edged flowers should have an even covering of meal overlying the petal edge, not so thick as to mask completely the underlying green, thereby creating the grey effect. In white-edged flowers the covering of meal must completely mask the green petal edge. In both grey and white edges the meal should be white, bright, refined and free from blemishes.
* Petal shapes as illustrated under 'Visual Glossary Leaves', in the A-Z Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants published by the R.H.S. in 1996. Also Called 'truncate'.