Linda Judith
Classification:
2 Y-ORR[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1986
Hybridizer:

Ken D. Fink

Ken D. Fink
, California, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2013
Seed Parent: 
Ardour 3 Y-R 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1952
Cheerio x Market Merry
Ardour
Pollen Parent: 
Falstaff 2 Y-O 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1960
Ceylon x 2Y-R seedling~ (Narvik x Marksman)
Falstaff
Seedling Number:
79-20-125
Pedigree Chart:
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as pollen
Descendants:
Comments

Fl. forming a double triangle, 103mm wide; perianth segments 45mm long, ovate, truncate, yellow, with white mucro, spreading, plane, with midrib showing, of heavy substance, overlapping a third to half; the inner segments narrower, less prominently mucronate; corona 22mm long, cup-shaped, orange with a broad band of red at rim, ribbed, mouth wavy, with rim entire.

At Descanso Show in 1979, Dr. Harold Koopowitz gave the hybridizer a capsule with one stamen of ‘Falstaff’ which resulted in this cultivar.

Origin of Name

Named after a friend of the hybridizer, Linda Judith Gardy. Linda’s mother used to call her “Linda Judith”.