Description
TUBE
- Tube color : light neyron rose (55C) with a light green stripe
- Tube shape : short, medium thick
- Tube dimensions : 15mm x 5mm
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : neyron rose and white
- Sepal color lower : neyron rose and white
- Sepal shape : half down
- Sepal tips : light green recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 70-75mm x 20mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : bishops violet (81A) edged spectrum violet (82B)
- Corolla mature color : imperial purple (78A) edged neyron rose (55B, C) with touches of white
- Corolla shape : bell shape
- Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 50mm long x 50mm wide
- Petaloid color : same color as corolla
- Petaloid dimensions : 20mm long x 10mm wide
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 15mm below corolla
- Filaments : light fuchsia purple (67C)
- Anthers : light fuchsia purple (67C)
- Pistil : 30mm below corolla
- Style : roseine purple (68C)
- Stigma : roseine purple (68C)
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- Ovary :
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : double
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- Flower bud : Very large, S are an inverted pear shape
- Habit : upright/trailing
- Branching :
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- Suitable as : basket, upright or standard
- Light/Climate : filtered light but is heat tolerant if shaded in a cool or warm climate. Cold weather hardy to -6ºC (22ºF), does not like direct hot sun
- Optimal light conditions : bright to filtered light
- Remarks : Needs support for heavy blooms if grown as a shrub
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- Year (of registration) : 1985
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- Breeder (or finder) : Richardson Noel
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- Country : Australia
- Tested : 3 3/4 years in Montrose, Australia
- Distinguished by : sepals do not split open to base of tube, large globular plentiful blooms
- AFS : 1808
- NBFK :
- NKvF : 6173
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- Parentage : Pio Pico X White King
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : medium green
- Foliage color lower side : slightly lighter
- Leaf dimensions : 110mm x 50mm
- Leaf shape : lanceolate
- Leaf margin : serrate (coarsely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : main is half red, half green with lateral green
- Stems : red
- Branches : red