‘Petite Melon’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Petite Melon'		SRL-Sch-2024-0010	Randy Whitton

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Randy Whitton	USA		Randy Whitton

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
2023	TRUN	upright	seedling

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
'Cristen'	pollen parent unknown	2019	pink

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size
	zygomorphic	white_yellow_pink	XS

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color
elliptic	yes	white	purple

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
color unknown	yes	extra small bicolor flowers have light pink/peach margins suffusing to creamy yellow centers. Petal tips vary from blunt to mildly tipped. A deep magenta-pink stigma barely extends past the anther cluster. Flowers appear large in relation to the size of the plant and its phylloclades.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
XXS	dentate	ICRA Registration	extra small phylloclades make 'Petite Melon' a very unique miniature plant. Phylloclades are squarish with an average of one, occasionally 2 small to rudimentary dentations per marginal side. Areole notches are very shallow. Under lush growing conditions the phylloclades will be larger.

Grower	Distributor
Whitton Greenhouses	Whitton Greenhouses