Sacramento Pink

  • Tube color : very light pink
  • Sepal color : light pink/slightly green
  • Corolla color : slight blush pink
  • Flower : single/semidouble
  • Habitus : upright/trailing

Description

TUBE

  • Tube color : very light pink
  • Tube shape : short to medium length, medium thick
  • Tube dimensions : 13mm x6 mm

SEPALS

  • Sepal color upper : light pink/slightly green
  • Sepal color lower : medium pink
  • Sepal shape : fully up
  • Sepal tips : green recurved
  • Sepal dimensions : 32mm long x 17mm wide

COROLLA

  • Corolla opening color : slight blush pink
  • Corolla mature color : light pink with darker pink base and veins spreading down
  • Corolla shape :
  • Corolla silhouette : Mostly quarter flared to occasionally half flared
  • Petal margins :
  • Corolla dimensions : 25mm long x 32-38mm
  • Petaloid color : light pink with darker base and veins, 4-10 per bloom
  • Petaloid dimensions : 19mm long x 6-13mm wide

STAMENS and PISTIL

  • Stamens : 32- 38mm below corolla
  • Filaments : bright pink
  • Anthers : light carmine
  • Pistil : 44mm below corolla
  • Style : bright pink
  • Stigma : bright pink
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MISCELLANEOUS

  • Flower : single/semidouble
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  • Flower bud : shape is ovate
  • Habit : upright/trailing
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  • Suitable as : basket, standard or pyramid
  • Light/Climate : a cool climate but does well in a warm climate and is heat tolerant if shaded when over 100ºF (38ºC). Cold weather hardy to 30ºF (-1ºC)
  • Optimal light conditions : bright to filtered light
  • Remarks : Vigorous, hardy, profuse, blooms from May to November
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  • Year (of registration) : 1985
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  • Breeder (or finder) : Fuchsia-La/Walker Roy
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  • Country : United States
  • Tested : 5 years near Sacramento, California, USA and 4 years Fort Bragg, California USA
  • Distinguished by : number of petaloids, grows in various climates, light pink bloom and vein color
  • AFS : 1799
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FOLIAGE

  • Foliage color upper side : medium to dark glossy green
  • Foliage color lower side : yellowish green, a reddish tint toward stem
  • Leaf dimensions : 70mm x 32mm
  • Leaf shape : ovate, pointed
  • Leaf margin : serrulate (finely toothed)
  • Leaf tip : acute
  • Leaf base : rounded
  • Pubescence :
  • Veins : green fading to reddish near stem
  • Stems : reddish
  • Branches : new branch color reddish turning green with age

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