‘Big Ben’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Big Ben'		SRL-Sch-2023-0035	Ruud Tropper

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Ruud Tropper	Netherlands	PG2320	Ruud Tropper

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
2023	RUSS	pendant	seedling

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
S. russelliana	S. orssichiana	2019	pink

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size
	symmetrical	pink_pink_pink	L

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color
elliptic	no	white	purple

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
color unknown	yes	very large, bell-like, pendant flowers are a vivid, solid fuchsia pink. Petals are acutely tipped. A purple-pink stigma extends just beyond the anthers. A unique, eye-catching hybrid.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
XS	crenate	SRL Registration	extra small phylloclades have scalloped margins with one shallow notched areole per side. Phylloclades can exhibit two small, rudimentary apical dentations.

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