Sun Child
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Classification:
2 W-GWY[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1976
Hybridizer:

Colin Crotty

Geraldine, New Zealand

Colin Crotty

Colin (left) and son-in-law Gordon Coombe

Colin Crotty
, South Island, New Zealand
Registered:
Yes, 1990
Seed Parent: 
Eminent 3 W-GYY 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1963
Green Island x Bithynia
Eminent
Pollen Parent: 
Lysander 2 W-YYO 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1959
Green Island x Chinese White
Lysander
Seedling Number:
10-76
Pedigree Chart:
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Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
11 times as seed, 7 times as pollen
Descendants:
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Comments

Fl. 86 mm wide; perianth segments roundish, somewhat truncate, fairly prominently mucronate, pure white, spreading, smooth, overlapping half; the inner segments more nearly ovate, square-shouldered at base; corona shallow, ribbed, white, with green at base and a wide band of rich yellow at rim, closely frilled.

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Sun childSun Child, 2 W-GWY, Colin Crotty, New Zealand, 1990
Photo #11243 Kirby Fong, USASun childSun Child, 2 W-GWY, Colin Crotty, New Zealand, 1990
Photo #11242 Kirby Fong, USASun childSun Child, 2 W-GWY, Colin Crotty, New Zealand, 1990
Photo #10551 Gordon Coombes, New ZealandSun childSun Child, 2 W-GWY, Colin Crotty, New Zealand, 1990
Photo #9876 Noeline McLaren, New ZealandSun childSun Child, 2 W-GWY, Colin Crotty, New Zealand, 1990
Photo #4327 Tony James, EnglandSun childSun Child, 2 W-GWY, Colin Crotty, New Zealand, 1990
Photo #2866 Kirby Fong, USA