‘Avalon’

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Avalon'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-018

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Thomas Boyle	USA

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
			sport

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
'Evita'			pink

Color temperature sensitive	Flower length	Flower width	Petal form

Recurved	Stamen color	Style color	Fruit color

Fruit edged	Flower description	Phylloclades length	Phylloclades width
	mauve pink RHS 74B suffusing to RHS 74 C. Flower diameter is about 6.7 cm compared to Evita's 5.6 cm diameter. Avalon’s flowers only stay open eight days, which is shorter than its progenitor ‘Evita’, which has flowers lasting 11–12 days. ‘Avalon’ is self- fertile with about 20% viability.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
PBR	growth habit is erect and sturdy. Phylloclades are longer and wider than 'Evita'. Phylloclades have a diploid (2n) epidermis and a tetraploid (4n) sub-epidermis making 'Avalon' resistant to phylloclade drop and stem breakage. 'Avalon' is self- fertile with about 20% viability. These F1 seedlings resemble 'Avalon' as do the F2 seedlings.