‘Ballerina’

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Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Ballerina'		SRL-Sch-XXXX-0065

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Trevor Poulson	Australia

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
	RUSS		seedling

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

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size
		white_white_pink

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
		petals have white bases, throats and centers. A broad margin of pastel pink with light mauve hints surrounds the petals. This color is temperature sensitive. Petals strongly recurve. Tubes are white. Stamens are white. A bright magenta pink style supports a similar hued stigma carried well beyond the anthers. Upper petals are rose magenta with a pale magenta-pink flush to face off petals. Flower length 6 cm. Upper width 4.5 cm., lower width 3.5 cm. Tube length 3 cm. Ovary receptacle 0.8 cm, four ribbed, deep amber. Flowering early June to late August (Australia). McM&H description: light mauve with white tube. Des Ellery description: beautiful light mauve petal edges fading to white centers & columns (tubes). Delicate shape. Note: 1) Paler than cv. 'W.L. Freund'. 2) More noncolor than cv. 'Holmesby Red', a different shade with a better flower shape. 3) Not as red as S. x buckleyi 'FF'.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
	crenate	E.B. Hoare Notes: A6-1-1; Des Ellery Note Card #20; McM&H 1995: 122; SRL Team	phylloclades have small sharply pointed apical dentations. Obtained from Trevor Poulson by Des & Merriel Ellery (Buena Vista Nursery). This plant was bred from Australian plants and not from US imports. Trevor Poulson was a hobbyist breeder. He used plants that were available in Australia and did not import. His mother sold his collection after his death. It is unknown if this is an actual interspecific hybrid or a cultivar with buckleyi traits.

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