Grandma Sinton

  • Tube color : light pink, striped red
  • Sepal color : white flushed pink with a splash of red near tube
  • Corolla color : light pink (65C)
  • Flower : double
  • Habitus : trailing
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Description

TUBE

  • Tube color : light pink, striped red
  • Tube shape : medium thick, short
  • Tube dimensions : 13mm long x 7mm wide

SEPALS

  • Sepal color upper : white flushed pink with a splash of red near tube
  • Sepal color lower :
  • Sepal shape : half up
  • Sepal tips : recurved
  • Sepal dimensions : 32mm long x 16mm wide

COROLLA

  • Corolla opening color : light pink (65C)
  • Corolla mature color :
  • Corolla shape :
  • Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
  • Petal margins : wavy
  • Corolla dimensions : 32mm long x 38mm wide
  • Petaloid color :
  • Petaloid dimensions :

STAMENS and PISTIL

  • Stamens : 19mm below corolla
  • Filaments : pale pink
  • Anthers : pink
  • Pistil : 25mm below corolla
  • Style : cream
  • Stigma : cream
  • Pedicel :
  • Ovary :
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MISCELLANEOUS

  • Flower : double
  • Flower size : medium to large
  • Flower display : hanging
  • Flower bud : Fat pointed
  • Habit : trailing
  • Branching :
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  • Suitable as : good basket, standard, pillar or decorative
  • Light/Climate : filtered light
  • Optimal light conditions : filtered light
  • Remarks : needs plenty of room to grow, weak liquid feed, according to BFS 2014 Annual parentage is ‘Harry Gray’ x ‘Pennine’. Boullemier, Bartlett and AFS say ‘Pennine’ x ‘Harry Gray’
  • Named : named after breeders mother
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  • Year (of registration) : 1990
  • Year of introduction : 1986
  • Year of hybridisation :
  • Breeder (or finder) : Sinton Roy
  • Introducer :
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  • Country : United Kingdom
  • Tested : 4 years in Ormskirk, Lancashire UK and introduced in 1986
  • Distinguished by : early blooming, profuse blooms
  • AFS : 2561
  • NBFK :
  • NKvF : 1796
  • BFS :

FOLIAGE

  • Foliage color upper side : medium green (137B)
  • Foliage color lower side : slightly lighter (137C)
  • Leaf dimensions : 51mm long x 25mm wide
  • Leaf shape : elliptic
  • Leaf margin : serrulate (finely toothed)
  • Leaf tip : acute
  • Leaf base : rounded
  • Pubescence :
  • Veins : reddish purple
  • Stems : reddish purple
  • Branches : reddish purple

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