‘Birds and Bees’

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Registrant
'Birds and Bees'		SRL-Sch-XXXX-0097

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Gerhard Buys	South Africa

Name year	Type	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
	T		seedling

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
mothers Day'	unknown		fuchsia

Color temperature sensitive	Flower form	Flower length	Flower width	Distributor

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Phylloclades length
		flowers exhibit S. × reginae traits in the flower form. The large fuchsia pink flower shades to magenta red on the outer petal edges. The petals are long having a width of 0.9-1.0 cm in width. Tube is white, pistil is magenta, filaments are white, anthers have bright yellow pollen. Flowers have long petals. Open flower form while not recurving in the front petals show little to no reflex.

Phylloclades width	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
			plant exhibit S. × reginae traits in an extra appeal dentation. The original cultivar hung outside in the garden and was often visited by hummingbirds and insects, hence the choice of name. 'Birds and Bees' is highly disease resistant. 2019.

Grower	Distributor