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Victorian Candlestick
- Tube color : red orange (43C) flushed blue, striped darker
- Sepal color : red orange (43C)
- Corolla color : dark to red orange (41A/43C) flushed blue
- Flower : single
- Habitus : trailing
Description
TUBE
- Tube color : red orange (43C) flushed blue, striped darker
- Tube shape : medium thick, long
- Tube dimensions : 46mm long x 4.5mm wide
SEPALS
- Sepal color upper : red orange (43C)
- Sepal color lower : red orange (40A)
- Sepal shape : horizontal
- Sepal tips : small yellow green recurved
- Sepal dimensions : 33mm longx 10mm wide
COROLLA
- Corolla opening color : dark to red orange (41A/43C) flushed blue
- Corolla mature color : red orange (43B) flushed blue
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette : one quarter flared
- Petal margins : smooth wavy triscalloped
- Corolla dimensions : 22mm long x 25mm wide
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STAMENS and PISTIL
- Stamens : do not extend corolla (-5mm)
- Filaments : pink (55D)
- Anthers : cream (11D)
- Pistil : 16mm below corolla
- Style : dark orange (40B)
- Stigma : pale pink (49D)
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
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- Flower bud : Long tubed ovate
- Habit : trailing
- Branching :
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- Suitable as : basket
- Light/Climate : overhead filtered light, heat tolerant if shaded
- Optimal light conditions : filtered light
- Remarks : Award of Merit, VKC Aalsmeer, The Netherlands 1992
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- Year (of registration) : 1993
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- Breeder (or finder) : de Graaff Herman J.
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- Country : The Netherlands
- Tested : 5 years in Lisse, The Netherlands
- Distinguished by : bloom color and size/shape (long tube)
- AFS : 3061
- NBFK :
- NKvF : 4678
- BFS :
FOLIAGE
- Foliage color upper side : dark green (137A)
- Foliage color lower side : light olive green (148B) flushed red
- Leaf dimensions : 64mm long x 32mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate to elliptic
- Leaf margin : serrulate (finely toothed)
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence : yes
- Veins : red flushed green
- Stems : red flushed green
- Branches : red
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