‘Imperial Dawn’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Imperial Dawn'		SRL-Sch-2026-0008	Randy Whitton

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Randy Whitton	USA		Randy Whitton

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
2023	ORSS	pendant	seedling

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
'Samba Brazil'	'Samba Brazil'	2020	red

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size
	zygomorphic	white_yellow_red	L

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color
elliptic	yes	white	purple

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
color unknown	yes	large flowers Petals are distinctly bicolored: petal bases and throats are pale yellow to light cream, smoothly suffusing to warm apricot to light orange toward the mid-petal area, with clear red to deep coral-red apices and margins. Petals are broad and overlapping. Petals are pointed. Outer petals are broader and more spreading, some slightly reflexed. The floral tube is pale pink to white. The stigma is deep pink to purplish, positioned slightly above the yellow anther cluster. The ovary receptacle is light green.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
M	flat dentated	ICRA Registration	small phylloclades are medium green, with a matte surface. Margins are dentate, with 2–4 forward-facing dentations along each margin toward the apex. Areole notches appear moderate in depth. Phylloclades are flat and broadly oblong, tapering slightly toward the apex. Margins are straight to slightly undulating. Midribs are not strongly pronounced. The plant exhibits a pendant growth habit.

Grower	Distributor
Randy Whitton	Whitton Greenhouses