‘Sonnet’

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Sonnet'		SRL-Sch-XXXX-1201

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Davies	Australia

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
	RUSS		seedling

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

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
		upper petals crimson rose suffusing silvery carmine-rose throats. Lower petals deeper crimson rose with faint carmine-rose centers at base of petals. Flower length 6.5 cm. Upper width 4.75 cm., lower width 4 cm. Tube length 3 to 3.5 cm. Ovary receptacle 0.6 cm., four ribbed, deep bronze green. Has fuller petals that give more of a reverse umbrella or bell shape than other buckleyi types. Note: does not have the two-tone color or tube shape of S. russelliana. 2) darker in color with better flower and petal shape than either S. x buckleyi 'FF', or cv. 'Holmesby Red' or 'Pale Pink'.. McM&H description: silvery carmine rose throat suffusing crimson rose; outer petals deeper crimson rose with faint silvery carmine rose, filaments very pale silvery violet, pollen whitish grey.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
	crenate	E.B. Hoare message to Des Ellery July 27, 1988; E.B. Hoare Notes: A6-1-3; McM&H 1995: 137-138	crenate phylloclades. Shy bloomer. Obtained by E.B. Hoare from Mrs. J. Davis, Sydney, 1981.

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