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Alvia of Sacramento
- Tube color : white flushed rose
- Sepal color : rose-pink lightly striped dark rose
- Corolla color : amethyst violet shading darker at tips, pink base
- Flower : semidouble
- Habitus : upright/trailing
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : white flushed rose
- Tube shape :
- Tube dimensions : 12-15mm long x 5-8mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : rose-pink lightly striped dark rose
- Sepal color lower : darker
- Sepal shape : fully up
- Sepal tips : reflexed
- Sepal dimensions : 10mm long x 10mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : amethyst violet shading darker at tips, pink base
- Corolla mature color : light greyed reddish violet
- Corolla shape : pleated
- Corolla silhouette : half to three quarter flared
- Petal margins : smooth
- Corolla dimensions : 5-8mm long x 10-12mm
- Petaloid color : amethyst violet
- Petaloid dimensions : 3-5mm long
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 2-4mm below corolla
- Filaments : rose
- Anthers : whitish grey
- Pistil : 10-15mm below corolla
- Style : rosy pink
- Stigma : rosy pink
- Pedicel :
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : semidouble
- Flower size :
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- Flower bud : Shortened ovate
- Habit : upright/trailing
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- Suitable as : basket, upright, standard or pillar
- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light in a cool to warm climate, Cold weather hardy to 30ºF
- Optimal light conditions : bright light
- Remarks : Awards: first 1986 Sacramento Show. Likes well drained soil, good upright without pinching
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- Year (of registration) : 1987
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- Breeder (or finder) : Fuchsia-La/Walker Roy
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- Country : United States
- Tested : 5 years near Sacramento and Fort Bragg, California USA
- Distinguished by : clustered prolific bloom over long period, bloom color
- AFS : 2153
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FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : dark green
- Foliage color lower side : lighter
- Leaf dimensions : 38-44mm long x 13mm wide
- Leaf shape : elongated ovate
- Leaf margin : entire (smooth)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : reddish green
- Stems : red
- Branches : greenis brown
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