‘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

Flower class	Color composition	Flower size	Petal form
	red-red-red

Recurved	Stamen color	Style color	Fruit color

Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color	Clades size
	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'.