Herps Buggy 
Herps Steekkar 
Beautiful and unusual flowers. Mature plants flower later than young ones freshly raised from cuttings. Exceedingly pretty, self branching,.
Tube: Long, fluted white through pink.
Sepals: Short, pink, white, to green tip, 1/2 down, reflexed tip.
Corolla: Neat, stunning red orange.
Foliage: Mid green, matt, not shiny.
Parentage: Wilma Van Druten x Wilma Van Druten.
AFS 5661
Herps Martina - No. 5661(Waldenmaier 2005)
Single. Upright
COROLLA is quarter flared with turned under wavy petal margins; opens red orange (42C); matures reddish orange (43C); 10mm (3/8) long x 5mm (3/16) wide
SEPALS are half down, tips reflexed; red (47B) tipped medium green (141C) upper surface; red (45D) tipped medium green (141C) lower surface; 13mm (1/2) long x 5mm (3/16) wide
TUBE is white (155C) blushed rose (47B); long, medium thickness; 23mm (15/16) long x 5mm (3/16) wide
STAMENS do not extend beyond the corolla; rose (51B) filaments; light yellow (2C) anthers
PISTIL extends 4mm (3/16) below the corolla; rose (52B) style; pale yellow (1D) stigma
BUD is elongated
FOLIAGE: dark green (137A) upper surface; medium green (138B) lower surface
Leaves are 60mm (2 3/8) long x 25mm (1) wide, elliptic shaped, serrulated edges, acute tips and rounded bases
Veins are medium green (138B); stems are medium green (138A/B); branches are medium green (138A)
PARENTAGE: Wilma Van Druten x Wilma Van Druten
Small upright
Self branching
Makes good upright
Prefers overhead filtered light, warm climate
Best bloom and foliage color in filtered light
Tested three years in Herpen, The Netherlands. Meise 3-7-04
Distinguished by color combination.
Flower: Single; hanging, medium, white and orange
Flower Tube: round; Dim.
27 x 4 mm; white (155D); to mature flower is the change from tube to calyx light pink
Sepals: large green tops; outside: white (155D); inside: pink (49B); Dim. 12 x 5 mm
Petals: orange (41A); Dim. 11 x 7 mm; 25% spread
Filament: Orange, 2 mm below petal
Anther: yellow
Style: pink, 7 mm below petal
Stigma: yellow, lobed
Bud: strongly elongated
Flowering time: normal in young, annual plants; older plants bloom later
Leaf: green top 137A, 137C bottom; Dim.
110 x 40 mm; leaf margin intact; lanceolate with pointed top and foot
Growth habit: erect to semi pendant
Cultivation Method: shrub, half- pendant or bush for place in bright light; cuttings annually to have early flowering plants
Specialties: recessive traits from both parents Wilma van Druten reflected (combination of white and orange); named after Martina Callaars.
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