Birch
Classification:
7 W/Y-W[ Jonquilla ]
Season:
Very Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
, Ohio, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2018
Seed Parent: 
Gilead 7 W-W 
Christine Birch, United States
Year of first flowering: 1986
Quick Step x open pollinated
Gilead
Pollen Parent: 
Oregon Cedar 2 W-GWW 
Richard and Elise Havens, United States
Year Registered: 1998
Misty Glen x Angel
Oregon Cedar
Seedling Number:
02.12.2
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fls (1-)3 per stem, forming a double triangle, 62mm wide, greenish white 157D; perianth segments 27mm long, very broadly ovate, blunt, prominently mucronate, spreading, plane or with margins incurved, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, ovate, shouldered at base, scarcely mucronate; corona 12mm long, cup-shaped, angled, mouth straight, ribbed and wavy, with rim entire. Late to very late. Strongly scented.

Origin of Name

named for a ‘ghost town’ in Marquette County, Michigan