‘Raelene’

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Raelene'		SRL-Sch-XXXX-1024

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
unknown	Australia

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
	TRUN		seedling

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
pod parent unknown	pollen parent unknown		red

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
		upper flowers are deep rose red with silvery white bases. Petals edged bright magenta. Lower petals with deeper carmine edges. Upper petals broad spatulate with pointed tips. Lower petals lanceolate with acute tips. Tube is rose red to magenta pink. Filaments are palest silvery magenta pink. Flower length 8 cm. Upper width 2.5 cm.; lower width 3 cm. Tube length 3.5 cm. Ovary receptacle 1.2 cm., elongated, very upturned, pear shape, bronze green. Flowers are butterfly shape. Flowering mid May to mid June (Australia). Note: Earlier flowering than cv. 'Red with Purple Edge No. 2' (R&C Metcalfe), but later than cv. 'Red with Purple Edge '(Betty Winton). 'Raelene' differs from these in color, not having the purple to carmine-violet hue.	variegated

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
		E.B. Hoare Notes: A6-3-1-A6-3-2; McM&H 1995: 136	renaming of a plant received from Carmel Metcalfe, received as Variegated Red, but flowered the wrong color (Edwin B. Hoare).

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