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- Tube color : red (45B)
- Sepal color : rhodonite red (51A)
- Corolla color : light yellow (18C/D) with an orange base
- Flower : single
- Habitus : upright/trailing
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : red (45B)
- Tube shape : long, medium thick
- Tube dimensions : 24mm x 7mm
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : rhodonite red (51A)
- Sepal color lower : crimson (52A)
- Sepal shape : fully down
- Sepal tips : yellow green recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 12mm long x 6mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : light yellow (18C/D) with an orange base
- Corolla mature color : light orange (33C)
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
- Petal margins : smooth to turned up are rounded
- Corolla dimensions : 7mm long x 9mm wide
- Petaloid color :
- Petaloid dimensions :
STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : 6mm below corolla
- Filaments : pale yellow (11C)
- Anthers : bright yellow (12A)
- Pistil : 18mm below corolla
- Style : pale yellow (11D)
- Stigma : light olive (145B)
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Nectary :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flower size : small
- Flower display : hanging
- Flower bud : Long pointed
- Habit : upright/trailing
- Branching :
- Hardiness:
- Height :
- Suitable as : decorative
- Light/Climate : filtered light in a cool climate
- Optimal light conditions : limited light during early spring
- Remarks : Needs pinching. Award of Merit (VKC, Holland)
- Named :
- Synonyms :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of registration) : 1985
- Year of introduction :
- Year of hybridisation : 1981
- Breeder (or finder) : de Graaff Herman J.
- Introducer :
- City :
- Country : The Netherlands
- Tested : 5 years in Lisse, Holland
- Distinguished by : corolla color
- AFS : 1877
- NBFK :
- NKvF : 2854
- BFS :
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : light fuchsia green (137B)
- Foliage color lower side : olive green (146A)
- Leaf dimensions : 60mm x 85mm
- Leaf shape : ovate to cordate
- Leaf margin : serrate (coarsely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : cordate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : light green blushed red
- Stems : light brown
- Branches : light green spotted dark
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