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Sorrento
- Tube color : white touched rose (55B)
- Sepal color : white (155C) flushed pale pink (55B) shading darker towards tube
- Corolla color : dark red purple (64A) splashed red orange (43B)
- Flower : double
- Habitus : upright
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : white touched rose (55B)
- Tube shape : medium
- Tube dimensions : 12mm long x 7mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : white (155C) flushed pale pink (55B) shading darker towards tube
- Sepal color lower : flushed dark rose (54B)
- Sepal shape : half down
- Sepal tips : white/green recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 40mm long x 25mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : dark red purple (64A) splashed red orange (43B)
- Corolla mature color : dark rose (55A)
- Corolla shape : bell shape
- Corolla silhouette : fully flared
- Petal margins : turned under and turned up toothed
- Corolla dimensions : 30mm long x 45mm wide
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STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 20mm below corolla
- Filaments : dark rose (67C)
- Anthers : light pink (39D)
- Pistil : 40mm below corolla
- Style : pink (62A)
- Stigma : yellow (10C)
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : double
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- Flower bud : Ovate
- Habit : upright
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- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light in a cool to warm climate, heat tolerant if shaded, cold weather hardy to -3°C
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
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- Year (of registration) : 1996
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- Breeder (or finder) : Southall Ivan
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- Country : Australia
- Tested : 5 years in Healesville, Victoria, Australia, introduced by Naambar Nursery
- Distinguished by : bloom color and size
- AFS : 3497
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FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : medium green (143A)
- Foliage color lower side : yellow green (146C)
- Leaf dimensions : 70mm long x 50mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin : serrate (coarsely toothed)
- Leaf tip : obtuse
- Leaf base : obtuse
- Pubescence :
- Veins : green
- Stems : red, green
- Branches : pale red
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