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Shocking Blue
- Tube color : pale purple (70D)
- Sepal color : light green (145B-D)
- Corolla color : dark purple violet (86A/B)
- Flower : single
- Habitus : trailing
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : pale purple (70D)
- Tube shape : medium
- Tube dimensions : 9mm long x 4.5mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : light green (145B-D)
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : fully up, half up
- Sepal tips : dark recurved more purple in sun
- Sepal dimensions : 25mm long x 5mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : dark purple violet (86A/B)
- Corolla mature color : purple (77A)
- Corolla shape : bell shape
- Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 15.5mm long x 10mm wide
- Petaloid color :
- Petaloid dimensions :
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 12mm below corolla
- Filaments : light purple (74C)
- Anthers : dark red purple (72A)
- Pistil : 22mm below corolla
- Style : light rose (73C)
- Stigma : very pale orange (19D)
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Nectary :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flower size : small
- Flower display : hanging
- Flower bud : Narrow elliptic shaped pointed
- Habit : trailing
- Branching : self branching
- Hardiness:
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- Suitable as : basket
- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light in a cool climate, heat tolerant if shaded
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
- Remarks : Award of Merit, VKC Aalsmeer, The Netherlands
- Named :
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- Year (of registration) : 1992
- Year of introduction :
- Year of hybridisation :
- Breeder (or finder) : de Graaff Herman J.
- Introducer :
- City :
- Country : The Netherlands
- Tested : 4 years in Lisse, The Netherlands
- Distinguished by : bloom color
- AFS : 2989
- NBFK :
- NKvF : 2838
- BFS :
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : dark/medium green (147A/B)
- Foliage color lower side : light olive green (147C)
- Leaf dimensions : 55mm long x 22mm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic
- Leaf margin :
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : obtuse
- Pubescence :
- Veins : light yellow green
- Stems : light yellow green
- Branches : light yellow green blushed red purple
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