‘Rita’ [Ellery]

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Rita' [Ellery]		SRL-Sch-XXXX-0351

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Des & Merriel Ellery	Australia

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
	TRUN		seedling

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
S. truncata var. delicata	'Ben'	1976	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 lavender mauve with silvery bases and centers. Upper petals have a distinct keel line to their reverse sides. Lower petals crimson rose with darker lavender-mauve edges. Upper petals spatulate with pointed tips. Lower petals obovate with acute to obtuse tips. Tube very pale lavender mauve. Filaments tinted pale lavender mauve on their upper halves. Flower length 8 cm. Upper width 5.5 cm., lower width 4 cm. Tube length 3.5 cm. Ovary receptacle 0.75 cm., small, upturned, five angled, bronze amber. Flowers are a normal shape. Flowers mid May to early June (Australia).

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
		Des Ellery Note Card BV17 & 20; CSJNSW September 1990; E.B. Hoare Notes: A6-4-4; McM&H 1995: 136; SRL Team	phylloclades have 2-3 small, forward facing dentations per marginal edge. Basal dentations are rudimentary. Areole notches are shallow.

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