‘Stardust’ [Takao]

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Stardust' [Takao]		SRL-Sch-XXXX-1251

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Matsunaga Takao	Japan		Matsunaga Takao

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport
1999	ENIG		sport

Pod parent	Pollen parent	Pollination year	Color
'Rita'			purple

Flower class	Flower form	Color composition	Flower size
		white_purple_purple

Petal form	Recurved	Stamen color	Style color

Fruit color	Fruit edged	Flower description	Clades color
		the symmetrical flowers are deformed with very short tubes, and an overall short length, but slightly variable between flowers. Petals are narrow, curled under on the margins or curled at the pointed tips. Petal color follows the Japanese Horticultural Society Chart and is described as bright red purple (JHS 9506). Flower tube is light yellow green (JHS 3304). Short stamens are light yellow green (JHS 3303) and the stigma is slightly darker yellow green similar to the tube (JHS 3304). Ovaries have 6 ridges. (Note Lee Goodfellow: the features of the flower suggest polyploidy which was probably induced chemically. The most likely agent for that would be colchicine).

Clades size	Phylloclades form	Reference	Comments
		JPVRS 3209	growth habit is upright. Phylloclades are average length, but narrow. with a slightly curved cross-section. Notching is shallow with normal sized dentations averaging 3 per marginal edge to the apex. This cultivar bears a strong similarity to 'Thor Wild Cactus'.

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