‘D2’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'D2'		SRL-Sch-XXXX-1697

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Des Ellery	Australia

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
			purple

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
		upper petals bright magenta pink with red-violet overlay and silvery magenta-pink throats. Lower petals are slightly redder. Flower length to 7 cm. Upper width 3.5 cm., lower width 4 cm. Tube length 3.5 cm. Ovary receptacle 0.8 cm., four angled, greenish to deep reddish hue. Blooms late May to late July. Note: slightly darker than cv. 'Ballerina' and longer with deep hued ovary receptacles. Note: 'D2' is slightly darker than cv. 'Ballerina'. Flower is longer, tube is not as silvery and petal faces are more silvery magenta pink than cv. 'Ballerina'.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
		E.B. Hoare Notes: A6-1-1	this cultivar appears to have never been formally named. Des Ellery made it commercially available as 'D2' which was possibly the seedling identification.

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