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
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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
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MISCELLANEOUS

  • Flower : single
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  • Flower bud : Pointed
  • Habit : upright
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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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