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Melissa Frances
- Tube color : pink (62C) to light rose (58D)
- Sepal color : pink (62A) to dark rose (58C)
- Corolla color : light blue (97C)
- Flower : semidouble
- Habitus : trailing
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : pink (62C) to light rose (58D)
- Tube shape : medium thickness, long
- Tube dimensions : 17mm long x 7mm
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : pink (62A) to dark rose (58C)
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : half up
- Sepal tips : recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 55mm long x 13mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : light blue (97C)
- Corolla mature color : violet (84C)
- Corolla shape : fan shape
- Corolla silhouette : no flare
- Petal margins : slightly turned up smooth
- Corolla dimensions : 20mm long x 32mm wide
- Petaloid color : same color as corolla
- Petaloid dimensions : 20mm long x 15mm wide
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 15mm below corolla
- Filaments : pink (62A)
- Anthers : pale yellow (8D)
- Pistil : 40mm below corolla
- Style : pink (62C)
- Stigma : pale yellow (8D)
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : semidouble
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- Flower bud : Almond shaped
- Habit : trailing
- Branching : self branching
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- Light/Climate : filtered light, cool to warm climate, heat tolerant if shaded
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
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- Year (of registration) : 1997
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- Breeder (or finder) : Southall Ivan
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- Country : Australia
- Tested : 6 years in Healesville, Victoria, Australia
- Distinguished by : bloom shape and color
- AFS : 3720
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FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : medium green (137B)
- Foliage color lower side : yellow green (146B)
- Leaf dimensions : 75mm long x 35mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin : serrate (coarsely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : green
- Stems : green
- Branches : green
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