Flying High
Classification:
3 W-YYR[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1976
Registered:
Yes, 2007
Registrant:

Brogden Bulbs

Brogden Bulbs
Seed Parent: 
Motif 3 W-YYO 
G.W.E. Brogden, New Zealand
Year Registered: 1969
Motif
Pollen Parent: 
Rockall 3 W-R 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1955
Kilworth x Arbar
Rockall
Seedling Number:
X51/A
Used as parent:
2 times as seed
Comments

Fl. 110 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, white, blunt, only slightly mucronate, spreading, plane to a little concave, smooth, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, with margins wavy; corona bowl-shaped, shallow, ribbed, yellow, with a very broad band of orange-red at rim, mouth obscurely 6-lobed, wavy with rim minutely crenate.

Origin of Name

Named because it has very long stems.