Description
TUBE
- Tube color : claret rose
- Tube shape : short, medium thick
- Tube dimensions : 10mm long x 7mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : claret rose (50A)
- Sepal color lower : delft rose (46D)
- Sepal shape : half up
- Sepal tips : recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 35mm long x 11mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : red/purple (72A)
- Corolla mature color : fuchsia purple (67B) white at base, smooth rose bengal edges
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : half flared
- Petal margins : wavy
- Corolla dimensions : 24mm long x 26mm wide
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STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 20mm below corolla
- Filaments : red
- Anthers : red
- Pistil : 40mm below corolla
- Style : red
- Stigma : white
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flower size : medium
- Flower display :
- Flower bud : Pointed
- Habit : upright
- Branching : self branching
- Hardiness: H2
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- Suitable as : lax upright, standard, pyramid, pillar, decorative or trellis
- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light in a cool or warm climate
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
- Remarks : Moderately self branching and easy to shape
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- Year (of registration) : 1986
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- Breeder (or finder) : Reynolds Edmund (Eddie)
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- Country : United Kingdom
- Tested : 3 years in Leyland, Lancashire, England, UK
- Distinguished by : corolla color, brightness of mature bloom color, bronze tinted young foliage
- AFS : 1980
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- Parentage : (Tolling Bell x Border Queen) X Rufus
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : mid-green (147B)
- Foliage color lower side : pale green (148B)
- Leaf dimensions : 40mmx 22mm
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin :
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base :
- Pubescence :
- Veins : green
- Stems : red
- Branches : red, which mature to green