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Flower Name

Lord Kitchener

Division: 

2 - Large-Cupped Info

Colors: 

W - Y

Season: 

Mid-Season to Late

Height: 

Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)

Hybridizer: 

Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse

Country: 

England, UK

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1905, registered with the RHS

Seed Parent:

Minnie Hume

Pollen Parent:

Weardale Perfection

Chromosomes: 

28

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Fertility: 

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

Used as a parent: 

4 times as seed, 5 times as pollen

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
Awards:

AM 1905; 

Comments: 

Fl. facing slightly downwards; perianth segments broadly ovate, usually acute, sometimes mucronate, pure white, somewhat ribbed, with margins often incurving towards apex, overlapping half; corona angled, pale primrose yellow, sometimes tinged yellowish pink, with mouth expanded, deeply and somewhat irregularly frilled.

 

 

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