Desert Fire
Classification:
11a W-P[ Split-Cupped Collar ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
2007
Hybridizer:
, South Island, New Zealand
Registered:
Yes, 2019
Seed Parent: 
Cherry Pink 11a W-P 
Colin Crotty, New Zealand
Year Registered: 2005
Peach Glow x Ashmore
Cherry Pink
Pollen Parent: 
Desert Blaze 2 W-R 
Colin Crotty, New Zealand
Year Registered: 1995
Blazing Wave x Debbie Joan
Desert Blaze
Seedling Number:
G15-07
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 100mm wide; perianth segments 36mm long, roundish, very broad, blunt or truncate, scarcely mucronate, white, spreading, plane or with margins incurved, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half or more; the inner segments narrower, shouldered at base; corona 20mm long, split almost to base into six segments, each almost as wide as and closely overlying a perianth segment, forming an outer and an inner whorl of three, two to three lobed, heavily frilled, deep apricot pink, becoming orange-pink towards rim.
Strongly scented.