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Boccaccio
- Tube color : dark rose (58C)/banded green
- Sepal color : white/lengthwise striped yellow green (145A) edged dark rose (58C)
- Corolla color : purple/red purple/magenta/dark rose (71A-71D)
- Flower : double
- Habitus : upright
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : dark rose (58C)/banded green
- Tube shape : short thick
- Tube dimensions : 14mm long x 7mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : white/lengthwise striped yellow green (145A) edged dark rose (58C)
- Sepal color lower : speckled dark rose (58C)
- Sepal shape : clockwise twisted fully up
- Sepal tips : white slightly recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 35mm long x 15mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : purple/red purple/magenta/dark rose (71A-71D)
- Corolla mature color : red purple (67A)
- Corolla shape : bell shape
- Corolla silhouette : half flared
- Petal margins : turned under and turned up
- Corolla dimensions : 35-40mm long x 50mm wide
- Petaloid color : purple (71A)
- Petaloid dimensions : 10mm long x 10mm wide
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 18mm below corolla
- Filaments : light red purple (73A)
- Anthers : very dark red purple (186A)
- Pistil : 30mm below corolla
- Style : white/light rose (73B)
- Stigma : brownish orange (167A)
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : double
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- Flower bud : Ovate shaped
- Habit : upright
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- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light, heat tolerant if shaded, cold weather hardy to -3°C
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
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- Year (of registration) : 1996
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- Breeder (or finder) : Southall Ivan
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- Country : Australia
- Tested : 5 years in Healesville, Victoria, Australia, introduced by Naambar Nursery
- Distinguished by : bloom and foliage color
- AFS : 3481
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FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : yellow green (144A), maturing to yellow green (146B)
- Foliage color lower side : yellow green (146C), maturing to light olive green (147C)
- Leaf dimensions : 90mm long x 55mm wide
- Leaf shape : cordate
- Leaf margin : serrate (coarsely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : cordate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : Veins are yellow/green
- Stems : yellow green, red at base
- Branches : pale red
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