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American Nikki
- Tube color : olive green, maturing to white with a slight rose cast
- Sepal color : light rose
- Corolla color : rose-vermillion
- Flower : single/semidouble
- Habitus : trailing
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : olive green, maturing to white with a slight rose cast
- Tube shape : medium to long, medium thick
- Tube dimensions : 19-25mm long x 7-8mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : light rose
- Sepal color lower : rose to orangish salmon
- Sepal shape : half up
- Sepal tips : recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 10-13mm long x 32-35mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : rose-vermillion
- Corolla mature color : reddish-plum to dark vermillion
- Corolla shape : pleated bell shape
- Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
- Petal margins : smooth
- Corolla dimensions : 16-19mm long x 19-22mm wide
- Petaloid color : None to few dark rose-wine splotched orange
- Petaloid dimensions : very small to about 3/4 size of corolla petal
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 13-l9mm below corolla
- Filaments : pink
- Anthers : grey-white
- Pistil : 25-44mm below corolla
- Style : pink
- Stigma : grey-white
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Nectary :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single/semidouble
- Flower size : medium
- Flower display :
- Flower bud : Plump ovate
- Habit : trailing
- Branching : self branching
- Hardiness:
- Height :
- Suitable as : basket or trellis
- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light and is heat tolerant if shaded. Cold weather hardy to 30ºF
- Optimal light conditions : bright light
- Remarks : Awards: trophy 1985 Sacramento show. Mostly semi-double blooms with occasional single blooms, steady bloomer at terminals, needs occasional heavy feed
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- Year (of registration) : 1986
- Year of introduction : 1984
- Year of hybridisation :
- Breeder (or finder) : Fuchsia-La/Walker Roy
- Introducer :
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- Country : United States
- Tested : 4 years near Sacramento, California, USA and introduced in 1984
- Distinguished by : contrast of corolla colors, floriferousness, rapid growth
- AFS : 1945
- NBFK :
- NKvF : 3080
- BFS :
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : medium green
- Foliage color lower side : lighter
- Leaf dimensions : 70mm x 38-52mm
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin : serrulate (finely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : modified obtuse
- Pubescence :
- Veins : light green
- Stems : light green
- Branches : light green to brownish green
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