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Flower Name

Killara

Division: 

8 - Tazetta Info

Colors: 

W - Y

Season: 

Mid-Season

Height: 

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

Hybridizer: 

Henry Selkirk

Country: 

New South Wales, Australia

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1910, registered with the RHS

Seed Parent:

Grand Monarch

Pollen Parent:

Empress

Chromosomes: 

45 + 1B

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Descendants: 

None

Special Class:
ADS Historics

Comments: 

Fls 3-4 per stem, 75 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, only slightly mucronate, somewhat inflexed, creased, overlapping half; the inner segments with margins a little wavy; corona cup-shaped, straight-sided, loosely ribbed, mouth straight and wavy, with rim entire. The same as 'Sanda##'?

Origin of Name: 

Named after Selkirk's garden, Killara, which was situated eight miles from Sydney.

 

 

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