‘Lilac Bouquet’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Lilac Bouquet'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-139

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Abbey Brook Nurseries	England

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
	GRAE

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

Color temperature sensitive	Flower length	Flower width	Petal form

Recurved	Stamen color	Style color	Fruit color

Fruit edged	Flower description	Phylloclades length	Phylloclades width
	bell shaped flowers with pale rhodamine petals and rhodamine throats (Meier described the color as dark lilac pink). Flowers are 2.5 cm. in length and 4.5 cm. in width Petals are sagittate (elongated, triangular) with pointed tips. Frontal view petal count is 10. Pistil is pale rhodamine with 4 2mm. long white stigma lobes. Filaments are rhodamine. Ovary is 0.7 cm., 5 ribbed, apple green on an open rotate shape. Note: like Mauvette, but a smaller flower.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
Illustration: Kaktusblüte, April 1992: 22/23, but listed incorrectly as ‘Lilac Beauty’. Abbey Brook Nurseries Catalog, 83/34: Cover Plate, incorrectly listed as Schlumbergera; Meier 1995: 20; E.B. Hoare Notes: B1-8	phylloclades are larger than R. rosea, but smaller than R. gaertneri. This hybrid received a P.C.C. from the British Horticultural Society (R.H.S) in 1982.