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Elf´s Own
- Tube color : light scarlet red
- Sepal color : light scarlet red
- Corolla color : plum claret
- Flower : semidouble
- Habitus : upright
- Parentage : unknown X unknown
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : light scarlet red
- Tube shape : medium
- Tube dimensions : 13mm long x 7mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : light scarlet red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : horizontal
- Sepal tips : reflexed
- Sepal dimensions : 76mm long x 38mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : plum claret
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : square
- Corolla silhouette : no flare
- Petal margins : slight veining at base and smooth
- Corolla dimensions : 76mm long x 38mm wide
- Petaloid color :
- Petaloid dimensions :
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 7mm below corolla
- Filaments : light scarlet
- Anthers : lighter scarlet
- Pistil : 25mm below corolla
- Style : light red
- Stigma : light pink
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Nectary :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : semidouble
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Habit : upright
- Branching : self branching
- Hardiness:
- Height :
- Suitable as : upright, standard, pyramid or pillar
- Light/Climate : Cold weather hardy to 30ºF
- Optimal light conditions : bright light
- Remarks : Very quick to grow with 10-12 blooms per stem apex
- Named :
- Synonyms :
- Lookalikes : Empress of Prussia
- Year (of registration) : 1986
- Year of introduction :
- Year of hybridisation :
- Breeder (or finder) : Woolley C. F.
- Introducer :
- City :
- Country : United Kingdom
- Tested : 3 years in Cardiff, S. Wales, UK and introduced in 1985
- Distinguished by : bloom color of substantial thickness
- AFS : 1961
- NBFK :
- NKvF :
- BFS :
- Parentage : unknown X unknown
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : light green with
- Foliage color lower side :
- Leaf dimensions : 32mmx 13mm
- Leaf shape : cordate
- Leaf margin : entire (smooth)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base :
- Pubescence :
- Veins : slightly pink near stem otherwise green
- Stems : red
- Branches : dull dark red
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