‘Spectabile’

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Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Spectabile'		SRL-Sch-XXXX-1575

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
	TRUN		seedling

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
S. truncata	S. truncata		purple

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size
		white_white_purple

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
		typical truncata flowers exhibit a large white center and throat, upper third of tips and margins are a rich red purple. McM&H described the color as RHS 71A . Petals are elliptical with acute tips. Tube is white. Filaments are white, style and stigma are red purple.

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
		Portfeuille des Horticulteurs 1848: 67-68; McM & H 1995: 97, 104 & 108	phylloclades are flattened with 3-4 small, marginal dentations up to the apex. Apical dentations appear larger. First recorded from a shipment for a Mons. Morel, received in 1846 from the region of Moro-Queimado, Brazil. Flower description based on an illustrated botanical plate.

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