‘Starlight’

 

Name	Synonym of	Register number	Applicant
'Starlight'		SRL-Rhi-XXXX-237

Hybridizer	Country	Hybridizer reference	Name giver
Reg Norton	Australia

Name year	Group	Growth habit	Seedling/Sport

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

Color temperature sensitive	Flower length	Flower width	Petal form

Recurved	Stamen color	Style color	Fruit color

Fruit edged	Flower description	Phylloclades length	Phylloclades width
	deep red violet with a red center stripe. Flower size is 3 cm. in length, 5 cm. in width. Petals are elliptic with acute to pointed tips. Frontal view petal count is 13. Pistil is violet red with 5 white stigma lobes. Filaments red violet, incurving to surround pistil. Ovary is 0.9 cm. with 4 ribs, mid to deep green on a star shape.

Reference	Comments	Grower	Distributor
Illustration: Gardening Australia, Sep 1992:12; Meier 1995: 23; E.B. Hoare Notes: B1-16	deep green phylloclades with 2 -3 areoles per side.Some segments are angular. Small rounded linear areole. Bristling in all areoles - noticeable in new growth (which is orange green darkening to deep green as segments mature).