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£2.25
Currently Unavailable
Hybridiser: Johns, Eric, (UK)
Year Introduced: 1997
Height 60cm
Spread 60cm

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Needs a bit of support to be grown as a bush but makes a superb hanging container. Released to celebrate the Diamond Anniversary of The British Fuchsia Society

Tube: White

Sepals: White with pink blush and pink stripe. Held horizontally and with arching upward recurve

Corolla: Creamy white with faint pink flush

Foliage: Medium green

Parentage: Harry Gray x Roy Walker.

AFS 3764

DIAMOND CELEBRATION - No. 3764 (Johns/Muncaster, 1997)

Double. Upright

Nonflaring square 15mm (5/8") long x 30mm (1 1/8") wide COROLLA opens white (155D) maturing to white flushed pale pink (36D) with smooth petal edges

Horizontally held 30mm (1 1/8") long x 14mm (1/2") wide SEPALS are white (155A) edged dark rose (54B) with recurved tips

Proportionately short thick 7mm (1/4") long x 7mm wide TUBE is white (155A) striped dark rose (54B)

STAMENS extend 5mm (1/8") beyond corolla with dark rose (54B) filaments and white (155A) striped dark rose (54B) anthers

PISTIL extends 25mm (1") beyond corolla with pale pink (36D) style and white (155A) stigma

Pointed triangular BUD

FOLIAGE is dark green (137A) on the upper surface, medium green (138A) on the lower surface with 42mm (1 5/8") long x 22mm wide lanceolate shaped leaves, serrulate edges, acute tips and rounded bases

Veins are green with red stems and branches

PARENTAGE: Harry Gray x Roy Walker

Lax upright, stiff trailer, standard or decorative

Prefers overhead filtered light with best bloom color in limited light and is heat tolerant if shaded

Tested 12 years in Harrogate, N. Yorkshire, UK and to be introduced in 1998

Distinguished by: bloom color, corolla shape.

Flower Size
Large (4.5 - 6cm) #
Flower Type
Double #
Habit
Semi Trailing #
Hardiness
H2 (Min 1°C to 5°C) #