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Flower Name

Cromarty

Division: 

1 - Trumpet (Long Cupped) Info

Colors: 

Y - Y

Season: 

Mid-Season

Height: 

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

Hybridizer: 

The Brodie of Brodie

Country: 

Scotland, UK

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1930, registered with the RHS

Seed Parent:

Hebron

Pollen Parent:

Alchemist

Seedling Number: 

53/A/25

Chromosomes: 

28

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Fertility: 

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

Used as a parent: 

21 times as seed, 17 times as pollen

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
Special Class:
ADS Historics

Awards:

*AM(g) 1949; AM(e) 1938; 

Comments: 

Fl. 100 mm wide; perianth segments brilliant yellow, spreading, plane, smooth, overlapping half; corona slightly darker in tone than the perianth segments, with mouth expanded, rim flanged and serrate.

Origin of Name: 

Most likely named for the county town Cromarty, located near Brodie Castle. Cromarty in derived from the Galeic 'crom' (crooked) and from 'bati' (bay), or from 'ard' (height), meaning either the 'crooked bay' or the 'bend between the heights'.

 

 

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Cromarty