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Moonglow
£2.25
Currently Unavailable
Hybridiser: Riley, Robert, (US)
Year Introduced: 1991
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Vigorous naturally trailing fuchsia with medium sized rose pink, violet and light purple flowers. Superb for hanging baskets or any trailing display.

Tube: Rose pink with yellow-green candy stripes, slender and tapering.

Sepals: Rose pink with apple green tips, slightly lighter underside, held slightly up from horizontal with very slight reflex at tips.

Corolla: Violet maturing light purple with rose base and veining, 1/2 flared wiith scalloped incurved petal edges.

Foliage: Mid green.

Parentage: Pink Marshmallow x Drama Girl.

AFS 2744

Moonglow - No 2744 (Riley, 1991)

Double

Trailer

Half flared 51mm (2") long x 51mm wide COROLLA opens white maturing to white streaked pink with smooth petal edges

Fully up 70mm (2 3/4") long x 13mm (1/2") wide SEPALS are white tinged peach (38C)

Proportionately long thin 25mm (1") long x 13mm (1/2") wide TUBE is white

STAMENS extend 13mm beyond corolla with peach (38C) filaments and anthers

PISTIL extends 13mm beyond corolla with white style and stigma

Long oval BUD

FOLIAGE is medium green (136B) on the upper surface, medium green (138B) on the lower surface with 89mm 3 1/2") long x 51mm (2") wide ovate shaped leaves, serrate edges, acute tips and rounded bases

Veins are reddish light green with red stems and brown branches

PARENTAGE: 'Pink Marshmallow' x 'Drama Girl'

Self branching natural trailer will make a good basket or standard

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

Trademarked in California

Tested 3 years in Carlsbad and Oceanside, California USA

Distinguished by: profuse bloom, growth habit.

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