Description
TUBE
- Tube color : orange red, paler ridges
- Tube shape : medium thickness, long
- Tube dimensions : 55-65mm long x 4-10mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : orange red, warty surface, prominent midrib
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : fully down
- Sepal tips : blackish green reflexed
- Sepal dimensions : 30-34mm wide long x 7-8mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : dark red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
- Petal margins : smooth slightly wavy
- Corolla dimensions : 17mm long x 17mm wide
- Petaloid color :
- Petaloid dimensions :
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 0-3mm below corolla
- Filaments : orange red
- Anthers : whitish tan
- Pistil : 3-5mm below corolla
- Style : orange red
- Stigma : pale orange pink
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Nectary :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud : Long tubular
- Habit : upright
- Branching :
- Hardiness:
- Height :
- Suitable as :
- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light, cool climate, cold weather hardy to 30°F
- Optimal light conditions : bright light
- Remarks : erect arching growth
- Named :
- Synonyms :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of registration) : 1998
- Year of introduction :
- Year of hybridisation :
- Breeder (or finder) : Baye Dr. Peter/Strybing Arboretum
- Introducer :
- City :
- Country : United States
- Tested : 3 years in San Francisco, California USA, introduced in 1996
- Distinguished by : corolla color, sepal tip color, bloom/foliage color contrast, fuchsia gall mite resistance, fall-winter blooming
- AFS : 3992
- NBFK :
- NKvF :
- BFS :
- Parentage : Fanfare X F. harlingii
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : dark bluish green
- Foliage color lower side : pale green flushed purple
- Leaf dimensions : 70-150mm long x 22-50mm wide
- Leaf shape : lance-elliptic
- Leaf margin : serrulate (finely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acuminate
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : purple
- Stems : purple to green
- Branches : purple to green