‘Chiquita’

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Chiquita'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-059

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
William Morris	Australia		Edwin B. Hoare

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport

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

Color temperature sensitive	Flower length	Flower width	Petal form

Recurved	Stamen color	Style color	Fruit color

Fruit edged	Flower description	Phylloclades length	Phylloclades width
	magenta red. Flower length is 3.5 cm. with a width of 3.5 cm. Petals are narrow to elliptic with acute tips. Frontal view petal count is 18. Pistil is magenta with 5 white curled stigma lobes. Filaments are bright magenta. Bronze-green, 0.8 cm. ovary has 5 ridges.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
Meier 1995: 17; E.B. Hoare Notes: B1-4	phylloclades are yellow green, 5 cm. in length and 1 - 1.5 cm. in width with purple-red edging. Segments have 4 - 5 areoles per lateral edge. Small yellow-brown bristles are present in the linear (apical) areole. Segments are smaller than R. gaertneri.