Letitia Harper
Classification:
2 W-P[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
2008
Hybridizer:

Ken D. Fink

Ken D. Fink
, California, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2013
Seed Parent: 
Accent 2 W-P 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1960
Interim x Interlude
Accent
Pollen Parent: 
Sedate 2 W-P 
Phil Phillips, New Zealand
Year Registered: 1967
Sedate
Seedling Number:
01-65-01
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 97mm wide, facing slightly upwards; perianth segments 39mm long, broadly ovate, blunt, mucronate, white with orange-yellow staining at base, spreading, plane or with margins slightly incurved, creased, of heavy substance, overlapping one third; the inner segments narrower, shouldered at base; corona 30mm long, funnel-shaped, angled, pink, mouth widely flared, ribbed, wavy and irregularly lobed, with rim crenate. Sweetly scented. Resembles pollen parent ‘Sedate’, but of deeper pink.

Origin of Name

Named for the hybridizer’s friend of 36 years, Letitia Harper.