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Doctor Rampa
- Tube color : deep red
- Sepal color : deep red (45B), 5 sepals not unusual
- Corolla color : deep violet blue (74A) fading to rosy crimson (57A) at base
- Flower : single/semidouble
- Habitus : trailing
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : deep red
- Tube shape : medium length, thick
- Tube dimensions : 11mm x 8mm
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : deep red (45B), 5 sepals not unusual
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : half up
- Sepal tips : tightly recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 45mm long x 13mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : deep violet blue (74A) fading to rosy crimson (57A) at base
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : loosely gathered
- Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
- Petal margins : smooth
- Corolla dimensions : 32mm long x 22mm wide
- Petaloid color : same color as corolla
- Petaloid dimensions : 13-22mm long x 4-13mm wide
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 6mm below corolla
- Filaments : crimson (52C)
- Anthers : reddish brown (185A)
- Pistil : does not extend below corolla
- Style : crimson (52A)
- Stigma : ivory (159A)
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single/semidouble
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- Flower display :
- Flower bud : Ovate crimson (52A)
- Habit : trailing
- Branching : self branching
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- Suitable as : basket, standard or trellis
- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light in a warm climate and is heat tolerant if shaded. Cold weather hardy to 28ºF
- Optimal light conditions : bright light
- Remarks : Will be trademarked in California
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- Year (of registration) : 1987
- Year of introduction :
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- Breeder (or finder) : McLaughlin Howard
- Introducer :
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- Country : United States
- Tested : 3 years near San Juan Bautista, California, USA
- Distinguished by : heat and wind tolerance, profuse blooms, good color in sun or shade
- AFS : 2105
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FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : shiny dark green (151A maturing to 136A)
- Foliage color lower side : medium shiny green (144C maturing to 146A)
- Leaf dimensions : 54mm long x 38mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin : serrulate (finely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : reddish brown (183C)
- Stems : reddish brown (183C)
- Branches : reddish brown to orangy brown (183C-169A)
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