Skip to content
Montrose Village
- Tube color : reddish purple (69A) diffused white
- Sepal color : white
- Corolla color : spectrum violet (82B) and white
- Flower : double
- Habitus : upright/trailing
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : reddish purple (69A) diffused white
- Tube shape : short
- Tube dimensions : 10mm x 8mm
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : white
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : horizontal
- Sepal tips : green recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 45mm long x 19mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : spectrum violet (82B) and white
- Corolla mature color : imperial purple (78A) and white
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : half to three quarter flared
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 38mm long x 67mm wide
- Petaloid color :
- Petaloid dimensions :
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 12mm below corolla
- Filaments : reddish purple (68A)
- Anthers : dark reddish purple (69A)
- Pistil : 25mm below corolla
- Style : white turning light red purple
- Stigma : cream
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Nectary :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : double
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud : medium long, tapering
- Habit : upright/trailing
- Branching :
- Hardiness:
- Height :
- Suitable as : good basket or standard
- Light/Climate : Heat tolerant if shaded. Cold weather hardy to -6ºC
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : Tends to throw long arching branches from crown, lower branches pendulous, requires early pinching
- Named : Montrose is a town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. Situated 38 miles north of Dundee and 42 miles south of Aberdeen
- Synonyms :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of registration) : 1985
- Year of introduction :
- Year of hybridisation :
- Breeder (or finder) : Richardson Noel
- Introducer :
- City :
- Country : Australia
- Tested : 3 1/2 years in Montrose, Australia
- Distinguished by : grows in a variety of climates (101°F to 22ºF), bloom variation, consistent bloom size and holds bloom color well
- AFS : 1809
- NBFK :
- NKvF : 1983
- BFS :
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : dark green, mid green
- Foliage color lower side :
- Leaf dimensions : 115mm x 37mm
- Leaf shape : lanceolate
- Leaf margin : serrate (coarsely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : red
- Stems : red
- Branches : red
Go to Top