‘Petite Melon’
Name | Synonym of | Register number | Applicant |
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'Petite Melon' | SRL-Sch-2024-0010 | Randy Whitton |
Hybridizer | Country | Hybridizer reference | Name giver |
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Randy Whitton | USA | Randy Whitton |
Name year | Group | Growth habit | Seedling/Sport |
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2023 | TRUN | upright | seedling |
Pod parent | Pollen parent | Pollination year | Color |
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'Cristen' | pollen parent unknown | 2019 | pink |
Flower class | Flower form | Color composition | Flower size |
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zygomorphic | white_yellow_pink | XS |
Petal form | Recurved | Stamen color | Style color |
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elliptic | yes | white | purple |
Fruit color | Fruit edged | Flower description | Clades color |
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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 |
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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 |
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Whitton Greenhouses | Whitton Greenhouses |