‘Andre’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Andre'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-007

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Johnson Cactus Gardens	USA

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
pod parent unknown	pollen parent unknown		red

Color temperature sensitive	Flower length	Flower width	Petal form

Recurved	Stamen color	Style color	Fruit color

Fruit edged	Flower description	Phylloclades length	Phylloclades width
	orange vermilion (Meier: bright red with raspberry colored margins; Johnson: pale crimson red). Flowers are 4 cm. in length, 6 cm. in width. Petals are oblanceolate with acute to pointed tips. Frontal view petal count is 15. Pistil is orange vermilion with 5 long white stigma lobes. Filaments are yellow orange at base to mauve pink, paler at their tops. Ovary is 0.8 cm. 5 ribs, bronze reddish hue with a funnel to rotate star shape.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
Meier 1995: 16; E.B. Hoare Notes: B1-9	roundish, matte green phylloclades have 2 - 4 areoles per side, rounded crenations are quite bristly. New growth sports a brownish margin. Often retailed in the past as 'Andre' or 'Andrae'.