Silver Plane
Classification:
3 W-Y[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, before 1927
Awards:
Special Class:
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
21 times as seed, 3 times as pollen
Descendants:
Comments

Perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, fairly prominently mucronate, pure white, spreading or a little inflexed, with margins creased, overlapping 1/3; inner segments narrower, more strongly inflexed, with margins wavy; corona broad disc-shaped, ribbed, with mouth 6-lobed and rim minutely dentate. Resembles ‘White Sentinel’ but with the corona more obviously disc-shaped. Was a Division 2 until 1937.

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Silver PlaneSilver Plane, 3 W-Y, Arthur E. Lowe, New Zealand, 1927
Photo #43549 Albert F. Calvert, England