American Heritage
Classification:
1 YYW-P[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1983
Registered:
Yes, 1993
Seed Parent: 
Memento 1 YYW-P 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1979
Gloriola x Rima
Memento
Pollen Parent: 
Lorikeet 1 Y-P 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1979
Rima x open pollinated
Lorikeet
Seedling Number:
SEH21/2
Used as parent:
6 times as seed, 9 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 110 mm diameter; perianth segments broadly ovate, slightly mucronate, intense lemon yellow, touched white at base, spreading, plane, with margins incurling at apex, smooth, overlapping half; inner segments a little inflexed, square-shouldered at base; corona funnel-shaped, smoothly and very broadly ribbed, pink, mouth very slightly flared, split in places and overlapping, with rim notched. Sunproof. Resembles ‘American Shores’ but with the corona less flared and of a deeper color. Sibling to ‘American Dream’ and ‘American Shores’.

Origin of Name

Part of the Haven’s “American” Series.