‘China Maid’

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'China Maid'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-056

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Betty Winton/Des Ellery/Edwin B. Hoare	USA

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport

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

Color temperature sensitive	Flower length	Flower width	Petal form

Recurved	Stamen color	Style color	Fruit color

Fruit edged	Flower description	Phylloclades length	Phylloclades width
	deep mauve face with pale pinkish reverse. Flower length averages 3.5 cm. with a width of 4 cm. Petals are elliptic with obtuse rounded tips. Frontal view petal count is 15. Pistil is pale pinkish mauve with 5 thick, white stigma lobes. Filaments are pinkish mauve with creamy pollen. Ovary is 0.8 cm., apple green with 5 angles.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
Meier 1995: 17; E.B. Hoare Notes: B1-3	flat to 4 angled phylloclades varying from small to large with deep purple edging. Brownish bristles present in all areoles with the longest bristles present in the linear (apical) areole. Differs from 'Pink Star' having more rounded petal tips on a smaller segmented plant (E.B. Hoare). Origin is possibly USA or maybe a commercial renaming of 'China Doll' or 'China Pink' (Meier).