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John Grooms
- Tube color : pale pink (62D)
- Sepal color : pink (62A) striped lighter rose
- Corolla color : violet (86D)
- Flower : double
- Habitus : upright
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : pale pink (62D)
- Tube shape : medium
- Tube dimensions : 15mm long x 8mm
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : pink (62A) striped lighter rose
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : half up
- Sepal tips : recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 51mm long x 22mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : violet (86D)
- Corolla mature color : pale purple (87D)
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
- Petal margins : smooth
- Corolla dimensions : 32mm long x 44mm wide
- Petaloid color : same color as corolla
- Petaloid dimensions : 19mm long x 25mm wide
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 19mm below corolla
- Filaments : dark rose (67C)
- Anthers : red purple (67A)
- Pistil : 38mm below corolla
- Style : pale lavender (69B)
- Stigma : pale yellow green (150D)
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Nectary :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : double
- Flower size : medium
- Flower display :
- Flower bud : Round pointed
- Habit : upright
- Branching : self branching
- Hardiness: H2
- Height :
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- Light/Climate : filtered light, heat tolerant if shaded
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
- Remarks : according to BFS 2014 Annual parentage is ‘Coquet Dale’ x ‘Sheila crooks’
- Named : to celebrate the John Grooms charity, which originally supported disabled or destitute flower girls in victorian London
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- Year (of registration) : 1997
- Year of introduction : 1994
- Year of hybridisation :
- Breeder (or finder) : Sinton Roy
- Introducer :
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- Country : United Kingdom
- Tested : 5 years in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England UK, introduced in 1995
- Distinguished by : bloom shape, continuous blooms
- AFS : 3960
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FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : medium green (137B)
- Foliage color lower side : medium green (137D)
- Leaf dimensions : 76-89mm long x 44mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin : serrate (coarsely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : obtuse
- Pubescence :
- Veins : green
- Stems : green tinged rose
- Branches : green
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