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Flower Name

Weardale Perfection

Division: 

1 - Trumpet (Long Cupped) Info

Colors: 

W - Y

Season: 

Mid-Season to Late

Height: 

Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)

Hybridizer: 

William Backhouse

Country: 

England, UK

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1869, registered with the RHS

Seed Parent:

N. abscissus

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Fertility: 

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

Used as a parent: 

16 times as seed, 21 times as pollen

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
Awards:

FCC 1944; 

Comments: 

Fl. up to 127 mm wide; perianth segments broadly or very broadly ovate, blunt, only slightly mucronate, milk white or pale sulfur, touched with the corona color at base, inflexed, with margins wavy, somewhat creased or with broad midrib showing, of good substance, overlapping 1/3; inner segments twisted; corona cylindrical, lightly ribbed, primrose yellow, paling a little at base, mouth expanded, rim broadly and irregularly crenate and a little flanged. Resembles a larger and paler-flowered 'Empress' with the corona mouth more widely expanded. Received FCC in 1944 under the name of 'Weardale'.

Synonyms: 

'Weardale'

 

 

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