‘Empress’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Empress'		SRL-Sch-2022-0008	Ruud Tropper

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Ruud Tropper	Netherlands	PG2111	Ruud Tropper

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
2021	RUSS	pendant	seedling

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
'Ehlers Form'	pollen parent unknown	2018	pink

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size
	symmetrical	white_pink_pink	M

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color
lanceolate	yes	white	purple

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
green	yes	pendant, long bell-like flowers are a beautiful rosy pink. Long, narrow petals are a pink tinged white from base to throat. Lower centers are light rose pink darkening upward to margins and tips. Dorsal sides of basal and lower petals exhibit an interesting light flush of yellow similar to some S. orssichiana wild specimens and cultivars. Tubes are white to pink tinged white (temperature influence). Extremely long stamens are white. A long style is pink on its lower half becoming purplish red on the upper portions. Stigma is a deep magenta pink and carried at the same level as the anthers. Pollen appears to be pink. Buds are very sharply pointed.	multicolor

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
S	crenate	SRL Registration	phylloclades can be of different colors, varying from green, green/white, green/red into yellow.

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