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Flower Name
Ornatus
Division:
9 - Poeticus 
Colors:
W - YYR
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Selected by:
James Walker
Country:
England, UK
Year of first flowering:
pre 1870, registered with the RHS
Selection of:
Chromosomes:
14
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as a parent:
23 times as seed, 16 times as pollen
Descendants:
Special Class:
ADS Historics
Comments:
Selection from France, introduced c.1870 by James Walker; Fl. 64 mm wide; perianth segments broadly obviate, blunt, fairly prominently mucronate, pure white, spreading, with margins wavy, separated at base, overlapping at shoulder; inner segments with margins strongly recurved at base as if spathulate; cup disc-shaped, ribbed, brilliant greenish yellow, with green shades at base and a narrow red band at rim.
Origin of Name:
Mistakenly named 'The Flat Crowned Saffron Rim'.
Synonyms:
Poeticus 'Ornatus'
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