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Flower Name

White Sentinel

Division: 

2 - Large-Cupped Info

Colors: 

W - Y

Season: 

Mid-Season to Late

Height: 

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

Hybridizer: 

Rev. G.H. Engleheart

Country: 

England, UK

Year of first flowering: 

pre 1915, registered with the RHS

Seed Parent:

Beacon

Pollen Parent:

2 W-W seedling

Chromosomes: 

28

Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree Tree
Fertility: 

Both Seed and Pollen fertile

Used as a parent: 

70 times as seed, 2 times as pollen

Descendants:
Descendants Tree
Awards:

AM(e) 1926; 

Comments: 

Perianth segments broadly ovate, yellowish white, spreading, with margins incurling, overlapping half; the inner segments a little inflexed, with margins slightly wavy; corona funnel-shaped, lightly ribbed, tinged pale yellow, slightly frilled, rim crenate and sometimes a little flanged. Resembles 'Mitylene' but with a yellower cup.

 

 

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White Sentinel