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Flower Name

Green Island

Division: 

2 - Large-Cupped Info

Colors: 

W - GWY

Season: 

Mid-Season to Late

Height: 

Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)

Hybridizer: 

J. Lionel Richardson

Country: 

Ireland

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1938, registered with the RHS

Seed Parent:

Gracious

Pollen Parent:

Seraglio

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Fertility: 

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

Used as a parent: 

114 times as seed, 82 times as pollen

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
Special Class:
ADS Historics

Awards:

AM Haarlem 1965; AM(e) 1946; *(Gulval)PC(m) 1940; 

Comments: 

Fl. rounded, 100 mm wide; perianth segments very broad, blunt or rounded at apex, slightly mucronate, spreading, concave at apex or with margins incurling, waxy smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half or more; the inner segments roundish, somewhat truncate, only very slightly mucronate, a little inflexed; corona shallow, ribbed, creamy white, greenish at base, with a broad band of brilliant greenish yellow at rim, mouth widely expanded, split in places and overlapping, closely frilled.

 

 

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