‘Robert Kuettle’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Robert Kuettle'		SRL-Sch-2026-0046	Frank Süpplie

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Frank Süpplie	Netherlands		Frank Süpplie

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
2023	TRUN	upright	seedling

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
S. truncata	'Proud Tina'	2006	purple

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size
	zygomorphic	white_pink_purple	M

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color
elliptic	yes	white	pink

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
color unknown	yes	medium-sized flowers, bright magenta-pink to fuchsia, with paler pink to nearly white throats and petal bases. The coloration intensifies towards the petal tips and margins. Petal apices acute to pointed. Floral tube white to very pale pink, lightly suffused with soft pink towards the upper portion. Stigma pink, extending beyond the cluster of pale cream to light yellow anthers. Ovary receptacle 4-angled, light green.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
M	flat dentated	ICRA Registration; Süpplie, F. (2023). The Bulletin, Epiphyllum Society of America, 77(2), p. 65.	medium-sized dark green phylloclades with 2–4 dentations along each margin to the apex. The plant exhibits an upright growth habit. Not difficult to cultivate, although relatively slow growing. Named in honour of Robert Kuettle, former President of the Epiphyllum Society of America (ESA), who passed away on 25 January 2020. Robert Kuettle was instrumental in establishing the first registry of Schlumbergera and Rhipsalidopsis (Hatiora) hybrids and was a highly experienced hybridizer of epiphytic cacti. Permission to use his name for this cultivar is retained in the ICRA archive.

Grower	Distributor
Frank Süpplie	www.schlumbergera.eu; Triple Aqua Licensing