Rhipsalidopsis Hybrid

‘Flame’

Rhipsalidopsis 'Flame'
Photo: Dr. Ira Slade

NameSynonym ofRegister numberApplicant
'Flame'SRL-Rhi-XXXX-092

HybridizerCountryHybridizer referenceName giver
Holly Gate NurseryEngland

Name yearGroupGrowth habitSeedling/Sport

Pod parentPollen parentPollination yearColor
pod parent unknownpollen parent unknownred

Flower classColor compositionFlower sizePetal form
red-red-red

RecurvedStamen colorStyle colorFruit color

Fruit edgedFlower descriptionClades colorClades size
scarlet to deep orange red with short orange center line from base. Flowers are 4 cm. in length and 6.5 cm. in width. Petals are narrow, linear with acute tips. Frontal view petals count is 18. Pistil is deep orange red with 6 whitish pale rhodamine stigma lobes up to 0.5 cm. in length. Filaments are violet red, paler near the tips. Ovary is 5 rib, star-shaped, 0.6 cm., opaque amber (paler at the segment join).

ReferenceCommentsGrowerDistributor
Illustration: Your Garden (Australia), April 1990: front cover; Australian Garden Guide 9(97): front cover: Plant Register 1980, Epiphytic Plant Study Group, Great Britain. Meier 1995: 18; E.B. Hoare Notes: B16segments are smaller than R. gaertneri. Possibly the same plant as 'Orange Flame'.

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