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£2.25
Currently Unavailable
Hybridiser: Massé, René, (FR)
Year Introduced: 1993
Height 75cm
Spread 62cm

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Makes a nice 1/4 or 1/2 standard fuchsia as well as being superb in a pot or border. Produces so many flowers and is so easy to grow we can heartily recommend this one, may have five or six sepals instead of the normal four, gorgeous.

Tube: Pale pink with faint stripes, longish

Sepals: Pale pink with green tips, slender and held slightly down and recurved.

Corolla: Reddish purple, 1/4 flared when mature

Parenage: Papy René x Pink Rain.

AFS 3102, NKvF 3978

VILLE DE PARIS - No. 3102 (Massé-Delhommeau, 1993) Single. Upright

Quarter flared 15mm (5/8) long x 8mm (1/4) wide COROLLA opens dark red purple (70A) maturing to red purple (66B) with smooth petal edges

Half down 21mm (7/8) long x 3.5mm (1/8) wide SEPALS are pale pink (62D) on the upper surface, light pink (62C) on the lower surface with recurved tips

At times 5-6 narrow sepals are present

Proportionately long thin 25mm (1) long x 4mm (1/8) wide TUBE is pale pink (62D)

STAMENS extend 5-10mm (1/8-3/8) beyond corolla with light pink (62B) filaments and dark rose (64C) anthers

PISTIL extends 32mm (1 1/4) beyond corolla with light pink (62C) style and yellowish white stigma

Lanceolate shaped BUD

FOLIAGE is dark green (137A) on the upper surface, medium green (137C) on the lower surface with 70mm (2 3/4) long x 38mm (1 1/2) wide ovate shaped leaves, serrulate edges, acute tips and rounded bases

Veins, stems and branches are greenish yellow

PARENTAGE: Papy René x Pink Rain

Lax upright or standard

Prefers overhead filtered light in a cool climate with best bloom color in filtered light

Award: Fuchsia Section SNHF 1992, France

Tested 3 years in Pornic and La Planche, France

Distinguished by: profuse continuous blooms, bloom color.

Awards
Other Awards SNHF 1992, France
Flower Size
Small (1.5 - 3cm) #
Flower Type
Single #
Habit
Bush #
Hardiness
H2 (Min 1°C to 5°C) #