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£2.25
Currently Unavailable
Hybridiser: Waldenmaier, Henk, (NL)
Year Introduced: 1998
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Gorgeous flowers with unusual colour combination. Upright, vigorous.

Tube: Red purple 67A, long, tubular, grooved.

Sepals: Light yellow green 149A, 1/2 down. Slightly recurved or reflexed.

Corolla: Dark orange 33A, violet 75A picotee edge to smooth petals, 1/2 flared, bell shape.

Parentage: Fuji-San x F. fulgens var. michoacans.

AFS 4372, NKvF 3990

WALZ Fanclub - No. 4372 (Waldenmaier, 2000)

Single

Upright

COROLLA is half flared, bell shaped, with smooth petal margins; opens dark orange (33A) and matures dark orange (33A) with extensive violet (75A) margins; 10mm (3/8”) long 10mm (3/8”) wide

SEPALS are half down, tips reflexed; light yellowish green (149A) upper and lower surfaces; 12mm (1/2”) long x 5mm (3/16”) wide

TUBE is reddish purple (67A), proportionately long with medium thickness; 30mm (1 3/16”) long x 5mm (3/16”) wide

STAMENS extend 1mm (1/16”) below the corolla; pink (49A) filaments and light yellowish orange (19B) anthers

PISTIL extends 5 (3/16”) below the corolla; pink (49A) style and greenish yellow (1B) stigma

BUD is thin and ovate

Foliage is dark green (137A) on upper surface and medium green (147B) on lower surface

Leaves are 90mm (3 9/16”) long x 50mm (2”) wide; cordate shaped, wavy edges, acute tips and acute bases

Veins are red, stems and branches are green

PARENTAGE: ‘Fuji-San’ x ‘F. fulgens michoacans’

Medium upright

Makes good upright

Prefers overhead filtered light

Best bloom and foliage color in bright light

Tested three years in Herpen, the Netherlands

Award of Merit, VKC, KMTP, The Netherlands

Distinguished by the color combination of tube and corolla.

Flower: single; triphyllas type; protruding flowers on sturdy, winding, protruding stem; dim. 42 x 15 mm.

Flower Tube: duct; grooved; angular; dim. 28 x 8 mm color: crimson purple (61B); dark ruby red (61A) stripes.

Sepals: horizontal ceding; dim. 13 x 4 mm; tips slightly bent, outside: light yellow-green (144C); deep rose bengal (61D) blush of base; inside: soft yellow-green (144D); pale green top. petals: ½ outstanding bell-shaped crown; The shovel-shaped petals have a cool to slightly jagged edge with one pointed lobe in the middle of the upper edge; dim. 10 x 10 mm color: basic orange (33B), midfield brighter orange-red, deep orange rim area (39A); deep orange edge; red veins; . filament lit hint

Filament: pink.

Anther: yellow.

Style: pink.

Stigma: yellow greenish; . clavate

Flowering: mild.

Bud: triphyllas bud; tip sideways; angular.

Leaf: undulating surface; speckled leaf; Red grain; long petiole; dim. 90 x 45 mm; elliptical; rounded foot; lichtgetande edge; mat; wax-like structure; lumpy top; color:. dark olive, top 147A, 148A bottom, mottled aubergine hint

Leaf position: crosswise

Habit: upright; sturdy, upright branches with long-members; the stamens seem implanted to stand on the sepals; by the small distance between the buds at the ends of the stems, it seems like the flowers that grow in bunches.

Growing Method: shrub for place in filtered light.

Details: flowers in an unusual color combination. Let quickly fall leaf and soon some yellow leaves little fattening. Not ensile. Name given on the occasion of the 12½-year anniversary of the Waldenmaier fanclub.

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Flower Size
Medium (3 - 4.5cm) #
Flower Type
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Hardiness
H2 (Min 1°C to 5°C) #
Properties
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