Description
TUBE
- Tube color : waxy white streaked blush pink
- Tube shape : medium thickness, long with bulbous base
- Tube dimensions : 38-42mm long x 8mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : half blush white/green
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : half to fully down
- Sepal tips : reflexed
- Sepal dimensions : 22-23mm long x 7mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : orange to white, tips green
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : elliptical
- Corolla silhouette : Quarter to three quarter flared
- Petal margins : smooth to slightly wavy
- Corolla dimensions : 12-14mm long x 7-8mm wide
- Petaloid color :
- Petaloid dimensions :
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : do not extend below corolla
- Filaments : pale pink
- Anthers : cream
- Pistil : 1-2mm below corolla
- Style : pale pink
- Stigma : cream/pale pink
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Nectary :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Habit : upright
- Branching : self branching
- Hardiness:
- Height :
- Suitable as :
- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light, cool climate
- Optimal light conditions : filtered to limited light
- Remarks : prolific bloom, not vigorous, hard to propagate with green tips
- Named : Fandent is a contraction of the parents Fanfare and F. denticulata
- Synonyms :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of registration) : 1998
- Year of introduction :
- Year of hybridisation :
- Breeder (or finder) : Baye Dr. Peter/Strybing Arboretum
- Introducer :
- City :
- Country : United States
- Tested : 3 years in San Francisco, California USA, introduced in 1996
- Distinguished by : sepal-tube color, corolla/sepal-tube color contrast, early blooming
- AFS : 3986
- NBFK :
- NKvF :
- BFS :
- Parentage : Strybing’s Improved X F. denticulata Strybings Improved
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : dark green
- Foliage color lower side : pale green
- Leaf dimensions : 60-90mm long x 20-35mm wide
- Leaf shape : lance-elliptic
- Leaf margin : serrulate (finely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute, acuminate
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : red, green, reddish
- Stems : green to tan
- Branches : tan