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Flower Name

Alamein

Division: 

2 - Large-Cupped Info

Colors: 

Y - O

Season: 

Mid-Season

Height: 

Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)

Hybridizer: 

J. Lionel Richardson

Country: 

Ireland

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1944, registered with the RHS

Seed Parent:

Trevisky

Pollen Parent:

Marksman

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Fertility: 

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

Used as a parent: 

2 times as seed, 12 times as pollen

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
Special Class:
ADS Classics

Awards:

AM(e) 1945; 

Comments: 

Fl. 102 mm diameter; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, vivid yellow, spreading or a little inflexed, a little concave, smooth, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, shouldered at base and sometimes “thumbed”, more strongly inflexed; corona short funnel-shaped, loosely ribbed, vivid orange, with mouth straight and frilled.

Origin of Name: 

Part of Lionel Richardson's “World War II Battles Series”. Named after the Battle of El Alamein which was marked as a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.

 

 

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Alamein