Enchanting delicate flower colours, yet a substantial bloom. Informal sort of plant with flowers to match, very attractive. Lovely bedding or container plant.
Tube: Greeny-white, short.
Sepals: White with green tips, held horizontally with partial recurve.
Corolla: White with purple-rose blush and petal edges. Quarter flared.
Foliage: Dark green.
Parentage: Joy Patmore x Pale Beauty.
AFS 3201, NKvF 2498
DELTAS DREAM - No. 3201 (Vreeke-vant Westeinde, 1994)
Single. Upright
Quarter flared 10-15mm (3/8-5/8") long x 13-17mm (1/2-5/8") wide COORLLA opens pale pink (56D) edged dark rose (54B) maturing to rose (55B) with wavy petal edges
Horizontally held 30-35mm (1 1/8-1 3/8") wide x 12-15mm (1/2-5/8") wide SEPALS are white (155A) shaded greenish grey on the upper surface, white (155C) shaded rose with recurved tips
Proportionately medium thickness 9mm (3/8") long x 5mm (1/8") wide pale yellow (2D) TUBE is proportionately short
STAMENS do not extend beyond corolla with pale pink (56C) filaments and pale tan (159A) anthers
PISTIL extends 20-25mm (3/4-1") beyond corolla with white (155C) style and light yellow (1C) stigma
Rounded BUD
FOLIAGE is medium green (138A) on the upper surface, medium green (138B) on the lower surface with 50-70mm (1 1 3/4") long x 20-30mm (3/4-1 1/8") wide lanceolate shaped leaves, serrulate edges, acute tips and cordate bases
Veins are dark green (132B) with red-green stems and brown-green branches
PARENTAGE: Joy Patmore x Pale Beauty
Self branching small upright
Prefers overhead filtered light in a cool climate with best bloom color in filtered light
Award of Merit, VKC Aalsmeer, The Netherlands
Tested 4 years in The Netherlands and introduced in 1991
Distinguished by: bloom color.
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