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Slippery Horn
- Tube color : purplish rose (68B)
- Sepal color : purplish rose (68B)/light yellow green (149C)
- Corolla color : magenta (63B)
- Flower : semidouble
- Habitus : upright/trailing
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : purplish rose (68B)
- Tube shape : long & thin
- Tube dimensions : 49mm long x 4.5mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : purplish rose (68B)/light yellow green (149C)
- Sepal color lower : purplish rose (68B)
- Sepal shape : fully down
- Sepal tips : reflexed
- Sepal dimensions : 12mm long x 6mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : magenta (63B)
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : no flare
- Petal margins : turned under
- Corolla dimensions : 10mm long x 10mm wide
- Petaloid color :
- Petaloid dimensions :
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 5mm below corolla
- Filaments : orangy red (44B)
- Anthers : light yellow (18C)
- Pistil : 5mm below corolla
- Style : rose (68C)
- Stigma : pale yellow (18D)
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Nectary :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : semidouble
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud : Long narrow
- Habit : upright/trailing
- Branching :
- Hardiness: H2
- Height :
- Suitable as :
- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light in a cool climate
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
- Remarks : floriferous, Award of Merit, VKC Aalsmeer, The Netherlands
- Named : It was composed in 1882,
- Synonyms :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of registration) : 1992
- Year of introduction :
- Year of hybridisation :
- Breeder (or finder) : Brouwer Frank
- Introducer :
- City :
- Country : The Netherlands
- Tested : 4 years in Arnhem, The Netherlands
- Distinguished by : multiple thicknesses of tube, long tubed bloom
- AFS : 3005
- NBFK :
- NKvF : 3438
- BFS :
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : dark green (147A)
- Foliage color lower side : light olive green (147C)
- Leaf dimensions : 72mm long x 34mm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic
- Leaf margin : serrulate (finely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : obtuse
- Pubescence :
- Veins : green
- Stems : green
- Branches : green blushed red
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