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Dick Swinbank
- Tube color : pale pink (62D) striped pink
- Sepal color : pink (55B), edged and veined dark rose (55A)
- Corolla color : purple, pink (62A) at base
- Flower : double
- Habitus : upright
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : pale pink (62D) striped pink
- Tube shape : medium thickness, short
- Tube dimensions : 13mm long x 8mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : pink (55B), edged and veined dark rose (55A)
- Sepal color lower : dark rose (55A)
- Sepal shape : fully up
- Sepal tips : recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 35mm long x 16mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : purple, pink (62A) at base
- Corolla mature color : magenta (71C), pink (62A) at base
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : half flared
- Petal margins : smooth turned under wavy
- Corolla dimensions : 25mm long x 25mm wide
- Petaloid color : same color as corolla
- Petaloid dimensions : 16mm long x 11mm wide
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 19mm below corolla
- Filaments : pink (62A)
- Anthers : light rose (63D)
- Pistil : 35mm below corolla
- Style : light magenta (66D) fading to light pink (62B) at base
- Stigma : pale orange (26D)
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : double
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- Flower bud : Thick ovate
- Habit : upright
- Branching : self branching
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- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light in a cool climate, heat tolerant if shaded, cold weather hardy to 32°F
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
- Remarks : Easy to propagate
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- Year (of registration) : 1992
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- Breeder (or finder) : Swinbank Lorna
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- Country : United Kingdom
- Tested : 3 years in Poole, Dorset, England UK
- Distinguished by : pest/disease resistance, profuse blooms, compact growth
- AFS : 2913
- NBFK :
- NKvF : 4099
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FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : dark green (137A)
- Foliage color lower side : medium green (138B)
- Leaf dimensions : 57mm long x 32mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin : serrulate (finely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : dark red purple (59A)/green
- Stems : dark red on the upper surface, reddish green on the lower surface
- Branches : reddish brown
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