‘Rosita’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Rosita'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-210

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 with large red flowers		red

Flower class	Color composition	Flower size	Petal form
	red-red-red

Recurved	Stamen color	Style color	Fruit color

Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color	Clades size
	pale red violet with red-violet centers and midstripes. Flowers are 2.5 cm. in length, 3.5 cm. in width. Petals are obovate with obtuse tips. Frontal view petal count is 13. Pistil is a deep red violet with 5 white stigma lobes. Filaments are deep red violet. Ovary is 0.7 cm. with 5 angles, bright apple green on a rotate form.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
Meier 1995: 22; E.B. Hoare Notes: B1-14	phylloclades are reddish edged green, flat or sometimes 3 or 4 angled segments up to 5 cm. in length, and to 1.5 cm. in width with 4 areoles per side within small crenations. Bristles are 0.5 cm in length, present in linear and lateral areoles.