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£2.25
Currently Unavailable
Hybridiser: Strümper, Karl, (DE)
Year Introduced: 1990
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A free flowering natural trailer with elegant flowers in rich, classic colours. Lovely.

Tube: Medium length, barrel shaped, red.

Sepals: Red, horizontal, recurved.

Corolla: Rich lavender blue, pale basal patch, up to 1/4 flared, smooth incurved petals.

Foliage: Mid green.

Parentage: ?

Insetta

Hybridiser: K. Strümper 1990 DE

Seed parent: Insa

Pollen parent: unknown

NKvF number: 7124

AFS number:

Flower: single, hanging from a solid winding handle, L.roze / purple, 29mm.

Flower Tube: curved tube, diameter round, pink 52B, blush and dark pink stripes, 12x7mm.

Sepals: stand half down, four-sided symmetry, top variable section plane, boss dimensions small and cream 155A, color pink 52C outside, inside pink 52B, 30x10mm.

Petals: straight crown, bottom view oval, not outstanding, the petals are spade-shaped with a smooth edge, color light purple base N81B, middle and outskirts N81A purple, pink lining, red veins, 19x15mm.

Filament: red, variable length, 35-31mm.

Anther: eggplant.

Pollen: cream.

Style: pink, 64mm.

Stigma: pink, lobed.

Flowering: normal.

Flowering time: usual.

Bud: oblong, tip sideways, angular diameter, axillary one bud per leaf axils, normally open top.

Berry: No data.

Leaf: heart shape, top striker foot heart shape, edge slightly serrated, matt appearance, smooth and bumpy, deeper veins, medium green color top, bottom dark green, midrib, veins and petiole red.

Growth habit: half hanger.

Growing Method: pendant or floppy bush without preference for the place, best color in partial shade.

Special features: Plant with long, thin branches that partially upwards and partially horizontal stabbing. Flower steal are also thin, but fairly firm.

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