‘Electra’ [Poulson]
Name | Synonym of | Register number | Applicant |
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'Electra' [Poulson] | SRL-Sch-XXXX-0996 |
Hybridizer | Country | Hybridizer reference | Name giver |
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Trevor Poulson | Australia |
Name year | Group | Growth habit | Seedling/Sport |
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TRUN | seedling |
Pod parent | Pollen parent | Pollination year | Color |
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pod parent unknown | pollen parent unknown | purple |
Flower class | Flower form | Color composition | Flower size |
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Petal form | Recurved | Stamen color | Style color |
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Fruit color | Fruit edged | Flower description | Clades color |
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reddish carmine with carmine-violet hue to upper petals. Lower petals have pale carmine-violet centers. Petal edges are finely serrated. Rear petals do not have a carmine-violet hue.Flower length 7.5 cm. Upper width 5.5 cm., lower width 5 cm. Tube length 3.5 cm. Ovary receptacle 0.9 cm., five angled, yellow amber to amber green. Flower shape is reverse umbrella. Flowers in June (Australia). Note: compared with cv. 'Bridgesii', 'Electra' is paler, flower is smaller without the silvery white tube and color is more reddish carmine than the deep rose red of 'Bridgesii'. |
Clades size | Phylloclades form | Reference | Comments |
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E.B. Hoare Notes: A6-2-2; McM&H 1995: 125 | obtained by Carmel Metcalfe from Trevor Poulsen. The 'Electra' used in Joyce Carr's crosses was the US import (Joyce Carr). |
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