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Flower Name

Albatross

Division: 

3 - Small-Cupped Info

Colors: 

W - YYO

Season: 

Mid-Season to Late

Height: 

Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)

Hybridizer: 

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

Country: 

England, UK

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1891, registered with the RHS

Seed Parent:

Ornatus

Pollen Parent:

Empress

Seedling Number: 

21

Chromosomes: 

28

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Fertility: 

Seed fertile

Used as a parent: 

9 times as seed

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
Special Class:
ADS Historics

Awards:

FCC 1944; 

Comments: 

Fl. to 127 mm diameter; perianth segments broadly ovate, rounded or squarish at apex, prominently mucronate, clear white, spreading or slightly inflexed, with margins wavy or incurved, sometimes recurved in lower half, with midrib showing, separated at base, sometimes overlapping at mid-point; inner segments more narrowly ovate, slightly mucronate; cup is bowl-shaped, ribbed, pale lemon yellow, with defined orange band at rim, mouth straight, loosely frilled, rim notched. Resembles its sibling 'Seagull' but with a contrasting color at corona rim.

 

 

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