Greenhill Tui
Classification:
3 W-YYO[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
2005
Hybridizer:

Denise E. McQuarrie

Denise E. McQuarrie
, South Island, New Zealand
Registered:
Yes, 2016
Seed Parent: 
Lynx 3 W-YYR 
Phil Phillips, New Zealand
Year Registered: 1964
Lynx
Pollen Parent: 
Invercassley 3 W-R 
John S.B. Lea, England
Year Registered: 1989
Colley Gate x Blanchard 68/15A {(Canisp x Vigil) x [Canisp x (Vigil x Empress of Ireland)]}
Invercassley
Seedling Number:
J009
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. forming a double triangle, 112mm wide; perianth segments 52mm long, very broadly ovate, truncate, slightly mucronate, white, spreading, plane, with margins incurling, smooth and of membranaceous substance, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, shouldered at base, blunt at apex, scarcely mucronate; corona 8mm long, bowl-shaped, ribbed, deep yellow, blending to a broad band of orange at rim, mouth expanded and lightly frilled, with rim dentate. Sweetly scented.

Origin of Name

Part of Denise McQuarrie’s “Greenhill Series.”