‘Holmesby Red’

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Holmesby Red'		SRL-Sch-XXXX-0466

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Betty Winton	Australia

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
	RUSS		seedling

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
pod parent unknown	pollen parent unknown		red

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 carmine with carmine-violet throats. Lower petals are more carmine. Petals have a keel line to their reverses. Flower length 6.5 cm. Upper width 5 cm., lower width 4 cm. Tube length 3.5 cm. Ovary receptacle 0.7 cm., four ribbed, deep reddish hued green. Flowers late May through early August (Australia). Note: 1) Stronger carmine hue than S. x buckleyi 'Fuchsia Form'. 2) Almost identical to cv. 'Pale Pink', just slightly paler. McM&H description: carmine with carmine-violet throat and suffusion; tube pale silvery carmine violet, filaments paler; pollen greenish carmine.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
	crenate	E.B. Hoare Notes: A6-1-1; McM&H 1995: 127

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