Echo 
Eleanor Clark 
This amazingly pretty fuchsia carries its flowers in terminal clusters. It was named by its hybridiser, Tielko Koerts, in tribute to Ede Ulfert Staal who was a Dutch singer-songwriter from the Northern province of Groningen who sang mainly in the Gronings dialect.
Tube: Proportionately long, white sometimes with the merest hint of pink.
Sepals: Pale pink through bold bright pink to apple green tips, held ½ up and slightly reflexed.
Corolla: Baby rose pink with darker picotee edges, ½ flared.
Parentage: Gerharda's Panache x Lord Lonsdale.
AFS 5585, NKvF 4875
Ede Staal - No5585 (Koerts, 2004)
Single
Upright
COROLLA: half flared, turned up petal margins; opens & matures rose (65A) edged magenta (58B); 15mm (9/16”) long 22mm (7/8”) wide
SEPALS: horizontal; tips recurved; yellowish white (158A) blushed rose (55B) upper surface; dark rose (58C) tipped reddish purple (61B) lower surface; 22mm (7/8”) long x 12mm (1/2”) wide
TUBE: yellowish white (158A) blushed rose (50B); long, medium thickness; 24mm (15/16”) long x 8mm (5/16”) wide
STAMENS: extend 2mm (1/16”) below corolla; light pink (65B) filaments; light yellow (12C) anthers
PISTIL: extends 18mm (11/16”) below the corolla; yellowish white (158A) style; yellow (20B) stigma
BUD: long & small, pointed
FOLIAGE: dark green (147A) upper surface; light olive green (148B) lower surface
Leaves are 86mm (3 3/8”) long x 52mm (2 1/16”) wide, ovate shaped, serrated edges, acute tips and rounded bases
Light green (137C) veins; light green (148C) stems; plum (184B) branches
PARENTAGE: ‘Gerharda’s Panache’ x ‘Lord Lonsdale’
Medium upright
Makes good upright, standard or decorative
Prefers overhead filtered light, warm climate
Best bloom and foliage color in bright light
Tested 3 years in Stadskanaal, The Netherlands
Distinguished by flowering in long racemes and blossom color combination.
Ede Staal
Hybridiser: T.G. Koerner 2003 NL
Seed Parent: Gerharda's Panache
Pollen Parent: Lord Lonsdale
NKvF number: 4875
AFS number: 5585
Flower: single, standing off to a solid neutral stem, pink / pink 37mm.
Flower Tube: sleeve, round diameter, 36D pink, dark pink blush, 20x6mm.
Sepals: horizontal position, four-sided symmetry, top variable diameter sphere, boss dimensions small and dark 54B, 54C dark exterior color, interior pink 54D, 22x6mm.
Petals: bell-shaped crown, bottom view oval, half outstanding, the petals are normally formed with an edge, basic color pink 36D, 55C midfield pink, pink edge area 55B, 17x15mm.
Filament: pink, variable length, 22x19mm.
Anther: pink.
Pollen: cream.
Style: pink, 55mm.
Stigma: yellow, lobed.
Flowering: normal.
Flowering: normal.
Bud: oblong, point sideways, round cross section, one axillary bud per leaf axil, normally open top.
Berry: No data.
Leaf: elliptical shape, top striker foot blunt edge slightly toothed, glossy appearance, smooth and bumpy, veins deepened color top and bottom means green, midrib, veins and reddish petiole.
Growth habit: erect.
Cultivation Method: bush for in full sun, best color in bright light.
Specialties: plant with an F. triphyllas origin (Gerharda's Panache).
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