‘New Deal’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'New Deal'		SRL-Sch-XXXX-1608	Glen Lord

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
			Mark Hooten

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
unknown	TRUN		seedling

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

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size
	zygomorphic

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color
	yes	white	pink

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
red	no	larger than normal violet-pink flowers exhibit color on upper petals and as a thin border along the petal margins to the throat. Acutely tipped petals have pristine white centers and throats. Ventral petals are recurved. Tubes are white. Pink style supporting a lighter colored stigma held just beyond the anthers. Mature buds are violet-pink.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
	dentate	SRL Registration	medium green phylloclades have 3-4 acutely tipped, forward to outward facing dentations with shallow areole notches. Phylloclades are large and broad. This vintage cultivar was originally offered in a rare plant sale by the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, New York City on November 8, 1932 which coincided with the USA presidential election that put Franklin D. Roosevelt into power. The term "New Deal" was a famous FDR election campaign slogan. The exact origins of this old cultivar are unknown.

Grower	Distributor
	Top Tropicals, Myers, Florida