‘Jewel Star’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Jewel Star'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-130

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
William Morris	Australia		Edwin B. Hoare

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
	blooms are red violet with darker petal tips. Flower length is 4 cm., width 4 cm. Petals are oblanceolate with acute to pointed tips. Frontal view petal count is 14. A red-violet pistil has 4 large curling, white stigma lobes. Filaments are red violet, incurving to surround the pistil. Ovary is 1 cm., 5 ribbed, reddish amber on a star to funnel shape.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
Meier 1995: 20; E.B. Hoare Notes: B1-8	thick phylloclades are narrow, long, yellowish to mid green with a purplish edge, averaging 5 cm. in length, 2 cm. in width. Segments have 3 - 5 areoles per side in small crenations. Yellowish white short bristles are located in lateral and linear areoles. Some segments are partially keeled.