‘Purple Pride’

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Registrant
'Purple Pride'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-188

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Johan de Vries	Netherlands

Name year	Type	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
	flower is dark orange suffused to fuchsia and scarlet red. Similar to ‘Gaertneri Giant’ but a little smaller. Stem segments are edged burgundy and are same sized to a little smaller than R. gaertneri. In a Johan de Vries advertisement, a photo of the cultivar appeared similar to ‘Evita’ with the exception of the flowers being slightly darker pink and the tepals being narrower. The blooms appeared more star-shaped.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
Illustration: Deutscher Gartenbau 14: 907. (1993); Meier 1995: 21	stem segments are edged burgundy and are same sized to a little smaller than R. gaertneri. In a Johan de Vries advertisement, a photo of the cultivar appeared similar to 'Evita' with the exception of the phylloclades were not notched. Netherlands. J de Vries.