‘Reading’

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Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Reading'		SRL-Sch-XXXX-1471	Ruud Tropper

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
unknown			Ruud Tropper

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
2017	ORSS	pendant	seedling

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

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size
	zygomorphic	white_purple_purple	XL

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color
elliptic	no	white	purple

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
green	yes	dark fuchsia pink flowers may or may not have a yellow colouration to the dorsal base of lower tepals. The center of the flowers lack the typical S. orssichiana dentate corona ring.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
L	dentate	SRL Registration	this particular hybrid was sold as S. orssichiana on the ELK in Belgium. It was reported to originate from Reading, England. In Reading botanical garden however, S. orssichiana was unknown. The flower is not the typical S. orssichiana color and lacks the strongly dentate corona ring. This hybrid is classified as a S. x reginae. Plant phylloclades may vary from normal to large in size. A good explanation of the origin (given by Ralf Bauer 2025) is as follows: I once knew somebody who lived in Reading: Gordon Rowley. A very nice and kind person and what a brain and spirit he had! I remembered that in his great work " A history of succulent plants" he pictured an orssichiana hybrid. On page 162 there is "Figure 12.13 - Another home-bred hybrid at Cactusville: Schlumbergera orssichiana x 'White Christmas'". "Cactusville" was the name of his house. So it was his own hybrid. But he never named it. The flowers in the picture in his book look pretty much like the flowers shown on the Schlumbergera.net webpage.

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