Whitton Starburst

  • Tube color : glossy red orange
  • Sepal color : green centrally striped red
  • Corolla color : glossy orange
  • Flower : single
  • Habitus : upright

Description

TUBE

  • Tube color : glossy red orange
  • Tube shape : medium to short, medium to thin
  • Tube dimensions : 20mm long x 3-5mm

SEPALS

  • Sepal color upper : green centrally striped red
  • Sepal color lower :
  • Sepal shape : fully down
  • Sepal tips : reflexed
  • Sepal dimensions : 12mm long x 4mm wide

COROLLA

  • Corolla opening color : glossy orange
  • Corolla mature color : orange
  • Corolla shape :
  • Corolla silhouette : non flaring to one quarter flared
  • Petal margins : smooth
  • Corolla dimensions : 10mm long x 7mm wide
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STAMENS and PISTIL

  • Stamens : 5mm below corolla
  • Filaments : pale pink
  • Anthers : white
  • Pistil : 10mm below corolla
  • Style : pink
  • Stigma : pale pink
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MISCELLANEOUS

  • Flower : single
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  • Flower bud : Elongated
  • Habit : upright
  • Branching : self branching
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  • Light/Climate : filtered light, cool climate, heat tolerant if shaded
  • Optimal light conditions : filtered light
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  • Year (of registration) : 1997
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  • Breeder (or finder) : Tickner Arthur
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  • Country : United Kingdom
  • Tested : 3 years in Mid-Wales, NE England, and E. Anglia England UK
  • Distinguished by : profuse early blooms, bloom color, interspecies cross
  • AFS : 3966
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FOLIAGE

  • Foliage color upper side : medium green
  • Foliage color lower side : light green
  • Leaf dimensions : 70mm long x 25mm wide
  • Leaf shape : ovate
  • Leaf margin : entire (smooth)
  • Leaf tip : acute
  • Leaf base : acute
  • Pubescence :
  • Veins : green
  • Stems : dark pink, maturing to green
  • Branches : dark pink

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