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Margarite Dawson
- Tube color : very pale pink striped pale rose
- Sepal color : pale rose fading towards tips
- Corolla color : white with slight pale rose veins
- Flower : double
- Habitus : upright
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : very pale pink striped pale rose
- Tube shape : short
- Tube dimensions : 13mm x 10mm
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : pale rose fading towards tips
- Sepal color lower : pale crepey rose
- Sepal shape : horizontal
- Sepal tips : reflexed
- Sepal dimensions : 44mm long x 25mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : white with slight pale rose veins
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : square or box shape
- Corolla silhouette : three quarter flared
- Petal margins : wavy
- Corolla dimensions : 29mm long x 57mm wide
- Petaloid color : white with slight pale rose veins at base of petal
- Petaloid dimensions : 13mm
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 22mm below corolla
- Filaments : pale rose
- Anthers : rose
- Pistil : 50mm below corolla
- Style :
- Stigma : white at base shading to pale rose creamy white
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : double
- Flower size : large
- Flower display :
- Flower bud : Heart shaped
- Habit : upright
- Branching :
- Hardiness: yes
- Height :
- Suitable as : upright or standard
- Light/Climate : filtered light. Cold hardy to -2º F
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
- Remarks : Responds best to early, frequent pinching, very free flowering
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- Year (of registration) : 1985
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- Breeder (or finder) : Dawson Harry
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- Country : United Kingdom
- Tested : 7 years near north Norfolk, England
- Distinguished by : larger blooms than existing hardy cultivars, different color break
- AFS : 1914
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FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : mid-green
- Foliage color lower side : lighter
- Leaf dimensions : 83mm x 57mm
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin : serrulate (finely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : red
- Stems : red
- Branches : red
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