Emerald Light
Classification:
3 W-GYO[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Very Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1984
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 2000
Special Class:
Seed Parent: 
Lemon Tree 3 W-YYO 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year of first flowering: 1960
Cushendall x open pollinated
Lemon Tree
Pollen Parent: 
Emerald 9 W-GOR 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year of first flowering: 1968
Quetzal x Smyrna
Emerald
Seedling Number:
TEH102/3
Pedigree Chart:
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, 60 mm wide; perianth segments very broad, somewhat truncate, prominently mucronate, pure white, spreading, a little concave, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half or more; the inner segments narrower, slightly inflexed; corona very shallow bowl-shaped, narrow, tightly ribbed, yellow, with green at base, and with a narrow band of orange at rim sometimes fading to yellow with age, mouth wavy, with rim crenate. Very late. Resembles ‘Lemon Tree’ but with the rounder corona having a brighter and longer-lasting color at rim.

Origin of Name

Part of Haven’s “Emerald” series.