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Blue Swirl
- Tube color : white streaked red
- Sepal color : white
- Corolla color : spectrum violet (HCC 735) red veins
- Flower : single
- Habitus : upright
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : white streaked red
- Tube shape : medium
- Tube dimensions : 11mm long
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : white
- Sepal color lower : creped white
- Sepal shape : horizontal
- Sepal tips : green recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 38mm long x 13mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : spectrum violet (HCC 735) red veins
- Corolla mature color : violet purple (735/3)
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
- Petal margins : each smooth edged petal folded back to a quarter of its width
- Corolla dimensions : 32mm long x 25mm wide
- Petaloid color :
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STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 76mm below corolla
- Filaments : spirea red (25/1)
- Anthers : white
- Pistil : 25mm below corolla
- Style : white
- Stigma : white
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Nectary :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
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- Flower bud : Pointed
- Habit : upright
- Branching :
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- Light/Climate : a cool climate but is heat tolerant if shaded
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
- Remarks : easy to grow, needs plenty of fertilizer
- Named : colouring of flower
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- Year (of registration) : 1987
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- Breeder (or finder) : Sharpe/Proffit
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- Country : New Zealand
- Tested : 5 years near Mt. Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand
- Distinguished by : folded petal arrangement
- AFS : 2082
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FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : parsley green (962/1)
- Foliage color lower side : lighter (962/3)
- Leaf dimensions : 64mm long x 32mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin : serrate (coarsely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : red
- Stems : pink
- Branches : red
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