‘Prairie Rosea’

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Prairie Rosea'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-186

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Jack Lawrie	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
	star-shaped flowers are pale, red violet mauve with darker center lines and reverses (Meier described them as pale carmine red). Flowers are 5 cm. in length and 7 cm. in width. Petals are obovate with pointed tips. Frontal view petal count is 13. Pistil is pale red violet with 5 white stigma lobes. Filaments are pale red violet becoming paler toward the anthers. Ovary is 0. 8 cm. yellow-green hue with 5 ribs. Each segment supports 1 - 4 flowers.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
E.B. Hoare Notes: B1-12	phylloclades have unpronounced lateral crenations. Linear areole is rounded. Yellow-brown,long hair-like bristles in all areoles. Phylloclades are standard R. gaertneri in size. A robust, strong grower.