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Flower Name

Algeciras

Division: 

3 - Small-Cupped Info

Colors: 

W - O

Season: 

Late

Height: 

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

Hybridizer: 

J. Lionel Richardson

Country: 

Ireland

Year Registered: 

1956

Seed Parent:

Mahmoud

Pollen Parent:

Khartum

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Descendants: 

None

Special Class:
ADS Classics

Awards:

AM(e) 1956; 

Comments: 

Fl. 77 mm diameter; perianth segments very broad, rounded at apex and prominently mucronate, creamy white, slightly reflexed, smooth, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, ovate, sometimes truncate, only slightly mucronate; corona almost disc-shaped, ribbed, orange, mouth straight and frilled, with lobes sometimes overlapping.

Origin of Name: 

Part of Lionel Richardson's “World War II Battles Series”. Named after Algeciras which was part of the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.

 

 

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Algeciras