Description
TUBE
- Tube color : light pink (38D)
- Tube shape : medium
- Tube dimensions : 16mm long x 7mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : peach (38B)
- Sepal color lower : orange (34C)
- Sepal shape : horizontal
- Sepal tips : recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 38mm long x 16mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : orange (40C)
- Corolla mature color : dark orange (41A)
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
- Petal margins : smooth
- Corolla dimensions : 25mm long x 25mm wide
- Petaloid color :
- Petaloid dimensions :
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 7mm below corolla
- Filaments : orange
- Anthers : red orange
- Pistil : 25mm below corolla
- Style : pink
- Stigma : cream
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Nectary :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flower size : medium
- Flower display :
- Flower bud : Long pointed
- Habit : upright
- Branching : self branching
- Hardiness:
- Height :
- Suitable as :
- Light/Climate : filtered light
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
- Remarks : long lasting flowers. AFS, Bartlett and Boullemiers Checklist state ‘Orange Crush’ x ‘Buttercup’, according to BFS 2014 Annual parentage is ‘Buttercup’ x ‘Orange Crush’
- Named : named after breeders wife
- Synonyms :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of registration) : 1990
- Year of introduction : 1986
- Year of hybridisation :
- Breeder (or finder) : Sinton Roy
- Introducer :
- City :
- Country : United Kingdom
- Tested : 4 years in Ormskirk, Lancashire UK and introduced in 1986
- Distinguished by : long lasting profuse blooms
- AFS : 2563
- NBFK :
- NKvF : 2226
- BFS :
- Parentage : Orange Crush X Buttercup
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : medium green (137B)
- Foliage color lower side : slightly lighter (137C)
- Leaf dimensions : 76mm long x 38mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin : serrate (coarsely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : green
- Stems : purple
- Branches : purple