‘Red Spider’

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Red Spider'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-201

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
William Morris	Australia		Edwin B. Hoare

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
R. rosea	R. × graeseri		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
	spidery carmine-red blooms. Flowers are 3 cm. in length, 2.5 cm. in width. Flowers exhibit long, narrow almost filament-like petals with very long pointed tips.Inner petals are somewhat rounded and fail to flatten out as the flower opens. Rear (outer) petals are more natural in shape. Frontal view petal count is 18. Pistil is carmine red with 4 white stigma lobes. Filaments are reddish violet - distorted. Ovary is 1 cm. opaque amber green with 5 ribs.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
Meier 1995: 22; E.B. Hoare Notes: B1-13	phylloclades are up to 5 cm. in length, 1 - 1.5 cm. in width. Some appear straplike with a heavy, rounded midline, others are long, flat, narrow with 4 - 5 areoles per side within small crenations. Yellow-grey, 5 mm. bristles in small rounded linear areole and lateral areoles.