‘Pillar Box’

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Pillar Box'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-173

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Betty Winton	Australia		Des Ellery

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
	buds are deep mailbox red opening to vermilion red (cinnabar red). Flower length is 5 cm., width is 6 cm. Oblanceolate petals have pointed tips. Frontal view petal count is 16. Pistil is mailbox red with 6 long white stigma lobes. Filaments are yellowish orange to pale mauve at their tops. Ovary is 0.6 cm., 5 ribbed, funnel to star shape with a deep reddish hue.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
Meier 1995: 21; E.B. Hoare Notes: B1-10	phylloclades are narrow at the bases, broader at their apexes with 2 - 3 rounded crenations per side. Long brownish bristles occur in a straight linear areole. New growth is reddish. This is a R. x graeseri type.