Best Friend
Classification:
3 Y-YYO[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1991
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 2001
Registrant:

Tom and Maureen Handley

Tom and Maureen Handley
Seed Parent: 
1-22-79 Seedling
Pollen Parent: 
Citronita 3 Y-Y 
W.A. (Tony) Noton, England
Year Registered: 1976
Lemonade x Perimeter
Citronita
Seedling Number:
1-43-87
Pedigree Chart:
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, 105 mm wide, facing down; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt and sometimes slightly truncate, slightly mucronate, light yellow, spreading, margins minutely incurling, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments somewhat creased; corona bowl-shaped, ribbed, slightly deeper in tone than the perianth, with a line of orange at rim, mouth widely expanded, more or less even , with rim entire.

Origin of Name

Named and registered by Tom and Maureen Handley in loving memory of their son.