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Althea Green
- Tube color : deep rose madder lined white
- Sepal color : white flushed and lined rose madder
- Corolla color : rosy purple, pink at base and deeper at edges, with rose madder veins
- Flower : single
- Habitus : trailing
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : deep rose madder lined white
- Tube shape : thick, medium length
- Tube dimensions : 15mm long x 10mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : white flushed and lined rose madder
- Sepal color lower : pale rose with a white base
- Sepal shape : half up
- Sepal tips : green recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 40mm long x 15mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : rosy purple, pink at base and deeper at edges, with rose madder veins
- Corolla mature color : deepish rose
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
- Petal margins : smooth
- Corolla dimensions : 30mm long x 35mm wide
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STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 15mm below corolla
- Filaments : rose madder
- Anthers : rose madder
- Pistil : 15mm below corolla
- Style : rose madder
- Stigma : 4 pointed white flushed rose
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
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- Flower bud : Longish pointed
- Habit : trailing
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- Suitable as : basket or weeping standard
- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light in a cool climate
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
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- Year (of registration) : 1987
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- Breeder (or finder) : Caunt Jack
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- Country : United Kingdom
- Tested : 5 years in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
- Distinguished by : vigorous growth, bloom color, long period of blooming
- AFS : 2143
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FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : midgreen with paler areas
- Foliage color lower side : palish green
- Leaf dimensions : 60mm long x 30mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin : serrate (coarsely toothed)
- Leaf tip : obtuse
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : green with a red midrib
- Stems : reddish green
- Branches : reddish green
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