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Pinto de Blue
- Tube color : pale pink
- Sepal color : white
- Corolla color : violet blue, pink at base
- Flower : double
- Habitus : trailing
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : pale pink
- Tube shape : medium
- Tube dimensions : 16mm long x 10mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : white
- Sepal color lower : white blushed pink
- Sepal shape : fully up, occasionally slightly twisted
- Sepal tips : recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 54mm long x 21mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : violet blue, pink at base
- Corolla mature color : purple
- Corolla shape : square
- Corolla silhouette : fully flared
- Petal margins : smooth
- Corolla dimensions : 32mm long x 54-57mm wide
- Petaloid color :
- Petaloid dimensions :
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 16mm below corolla
- Filaments : pink
- Anthers : rose
- Pistil : 44mm below corolla
- Style : blush
- Stigma : blush
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Nectary :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : double
- Flower size : large
- Flower display : hanging
- Flower bud : Tear drop shaped
- Habit : trailing
- Branching :
- Hardiness: H2
- Height :
- Suitable as :
- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light in a cool climate, cold weather hardy to 22°F
- Optimal light conditions : bright to filtered light
- Remarks : Trademarked in California, floriferous, eye-catching cultivar
- Named : according to Michael Breneman the name was derived from an old song Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu) which he heard sung by Dean Martin
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- Year (of registration) : 1996
- Year of introduction :
- Year of hybridisation :
- Breeder (or finder) : Breneman/Antonelli
- Introducer :
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- Country : United States
- Tested :
- Distinguished by : vigorous growth, profuse blooms
- AFS : 3545
- NBFK :
- NKvF : 4739
- BFS :
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : medium green
- Foliage color lower side : light green
- Leaf dimensions : 95mm long x 51mm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic
- Leaf margin : serrate (coarsely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : Veins are reddish at base
- Stems : red
- Branches : light red, green
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