‘Albert Namatjira’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Albert Namatjira'		SRL-Sch-XXXX-0009

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Des & Merriel Ellery	Australia

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
	TRUN		seedling

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
'Christmas Cheer'	'White Christmas'		orange

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
		flower is orange apricot with pale silvery magenta pink throat. Upper petals are round spatulate with cuspidate tips. Lower petals are sagittate with obtuse tips. Tube is 3.5 cm. with pale silvery magenta pink. Flower length is 7.5 cm. Upper width is 2.5 cm. and lower width is 3 cm. Ovary receptacle is 0.7 cm., upturned, faintly angled, apple green. Flower is bell to reverse umbrella shape. Flowering season in Australia is June.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
		Des Ellery Note Card G1; E.B. Hoare Notes A6-6-1; McM&H 1995: 122	pollination date: May 24, 1983. First flowering: May 14, 1986. Named with permission, in honor of deceased Aboriginal Arrernte artist Albert Namatjira, whose paintings often depicted colors similar to this flower. Note: McM& H 1995: 122, had pod and pollen donor information reversed. Des Ellery's Note Card G1 depicted 'White Christmas' as the pollen parent.

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