Em's Pride
Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
, Victoria, Australia
Registered:
Yes, 1979
Registrant:

J.N. Hancock and Co.

J.N. Hancock and Co.
, Victoria, Australia
Seed Parent: 
Crocus 2 Y-Y 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1927
Crocus
Pollen Parent: 
Julius Caesar 1 Y-Y 
Grant Errey, Australia
Year Registered: 1962
Julius Caesar
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 110 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, brilliant greenish yellow, with white mucro, spreading, plane, overlapping a quarter; the inner segments narrower, inflexed at base, reflexed towards apex, with margins wavy and incurling; corona cylindrical, angled, darker in tone than the perianth, with a band of brownish yellow at base, mouth heavily ribbed and very widely expanded, rim irregularly and very deeply notched. Resembles a larger and improved ‘Julius Caesar’.