Description
TUBE
- Tube color : orange pink
- Tube shape : long bulbous
- Tube dimensions : 35-38mm long x 5-6mm to 9-10mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : green, greenish yellow or greenish red depending on amount of light, light orangy pink at base
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : fully down
- Sepal tips : straight
- Sepal dimensions : 14-15mm long (united at base for 3mm) x 8-9mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : pale greenish yellow
- Corolla mature color : pale yellow in shade to pale yellow flushed pale orange in sun
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
- Petal margins : cordate shaped petals/acuminate tips
- Corolla dimensions : 9mm long x 8-9mm wide
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STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : <5mm below corolla
- Filaments : pale yellow
- Anthers : whitish yellow
- Pistil : 13-14mm below corolla
- Style :
- Stigma : pale yellow
- Pedicel :
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
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- Flower bud : Long bulbous
- Habit : upright
- Branching :
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- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light and some full sun, cool climate, tolerates warm climate, heat tolerant if shaded
- Optimal light conditions : bright to filtered light
- Remarks : terminal panicles with prolific bloom, not vigorous, irregular shape; highly FGM resistant
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- Year (of registration) : 1998
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- Breeder (or finder) : Baye Dr. Peter/Strybing Arboretum
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- Country : United States
- Tested : 3 years in San Francisco, California, introduced in 1996
- Distinguished by : corolla color, bulbous tube, fuchsia gall mite resistance, year-round blooming
- AFS : 3993
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- Parentage : F. fulgens X F. splendens
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : medium green, light green with whitish bloom when immature
- Foliage color lower side : pale green
- Leaf dimensions : 50-120mm long x 30-80mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate to cordate
- Leaf margin : very serrate (coarsly toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute, acuminate
- Leaf base :
- Pubescence : yes
- Veins : green
- Stems : green
- Branches : tan