‘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

Color temperature sensitive	Flower length	Flower width	Petal form

Recurved	Stamen color	Style color	Fruit color

Fruit edged	Flower description	Phylloclades length	Phylloclades width
	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.