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Olive Moon
- Tube color : white with a pale pink flush
- Sepal color : almost white with the palest pink flush
- Corolla color : white, pale magenta flush from base of petals, darker veins
- Flower : semidouble
- Habitus : upright
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : white with a pale pink flush
- Tube shape : short, medium thick
- Tube dimensions : 13mm long x 7mm
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : almost white with the palest pink flush
- Sepal color lower : neyron rose (55C)
- Sepal shape : half up
- Sepal tips : reflexed pale yellow green
- Sepal dimensions : 38mm long x 13mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : white, pale magenta flush from base of petals, darker veins
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : half flared
- Petal margins : wavy
- Corolla dimensions : 19mm long x 32mm wide
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STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 19mm below corolla
- Filaments : magenta (66A)
- Anthers : ruby red (61A)
- Pistil : 38mm below corolla
- Style : very pale pink
- Stigma : light yellow (4C)
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : semidouble
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- Flower bud : Rather short pointed
- Habit : upright
- Branching : self branching
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- Suitable as : flat spreading short jointed bush
- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light, is heat tolerant if shaded
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light, will stand full sun but blooms are more pink
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- Year (of registration) : 1987
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- Breeder (or finder) : Tite Les
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- Country : United Kingdom
- Tested : 3 years in Pagham, Bognor Regis, W. Sussex, England UK
- Distinguished by : bloom color and size with bloom held outward on short pedicels
- AFS : 2141
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FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : midgreen (137B)
- Foliage color lower side : light green (138B)
- Leaf dimensions : 51mm long x 25mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin : serrulate (finely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : light green except for the light purple base of the main vein
- Stems : light purple
- Branches : light green flushed light purple
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