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Flower Name

Principal

Division: 

1 - Trumpet (Long Cupped) Info

Colors: 

Y - Y

Season: 

Mid-Season

Height: 

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

Hybridizer: 

Guy L. Wilson

Country: 

Northern Ireland, UK

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1931, registered with the RHS

Seed Parent:

Cleopatra

Pollen Parent:

Sorley Boy

Chromosomes: 

28

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Fertility: 

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

Used as a parent: 

18 times as seed, 5 times as pollen

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
Awards:

FCC(e) 1937; AM(e) 1935; 

Comments: 

Fl. 102 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, mucronate, chrome yellow, spreading, irregular, overlapping half; the inner segments a little inflexed, slightly twisted or with margins wavy, more regular; corona cylindrical, smooth, a little darker in tone than the perianth, with rim widely flanged and regularly notched. Resembles an improved 'Dawson City'.

 

 

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Principal