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Flower Name

Lady Margaret Boscawen

Division: 

2 - Large-Cupped Info

Colors: 

W - Y

Hybridizer: 

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

Country: 

England, UK

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1898, registered with the RHS

Seed Parent:

Horsfieldii

Pollen Parent:

Ornatus

Chromosomes: 

29

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Fertility: 

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

Used as a parent: 

5 times as seed, 5 times as pollen

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
Special Class:
ADS Historics

Awards:

*C(g) 1931; FCC 1898; 

Comments: 

Fl. star-shaped, 90 mm wide, facing slightly upwards; perianth segments broadly ovate or somewhat oblong, blunt, fairly prominently mucronate, milk white, slightly stained at base, a little inflexed, with margins incurved, ribbed, of somewhat thin substance, overlapping one-third; the inner segments a little more narrowly ovate, with margins wavy; corona funnel-shaped, ribbed, primrose yellow, mouth straight, lightly frilled, with rim crenate. Resembles 'Sir Watkin' in form.

Synonyms: 

'Lady Boscawen'

 

 

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