‘Holmesby Red’

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Holmesby Red'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-118

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Betty Winton	Australia

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
	light red with fuchsia or magenta edges. Funnel to wheel shaped flowers are 4.5 cm. in length and 6 cm. in width. Petals are obovate with pointed tips. Frontal view petal count is 14. Pistil is pale yellowish red to pale mauve with 7 large stigma lobes. Filaments are pale yellowish red darkening to pale mauve at the top. Ovary is 0.8 cm., 5 angled, yellow green with a red-bronze hue. Form is funnel-shaped to star-shaped. Flower is similar to R. gaertneri in form.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
Meier 1995: 20; E.B. Hoare Notes: B1-8	matte mid green phylloclades with 2 - 4 heavily bristled lateral areoles per side. Linear areole is semi-round with 1 cm. long yellow-green bristles. Obtained by Des Ellery from Betty Winton.