Lezant
Classification:
3 Y-YYR[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1989
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 2012
Seed Parent: 
Aircastle 3 W-Y 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1958
Green Island x Chinese White
Aircastle
Pollen Parent: 
Montego 3 Y-YYO 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1968
Merlin x open pollinated
Montego
Seedling Number:
327
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 95mm wide; perianth segments 40mm long, broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, spreading, concave, with margins incurling, smooth and of membranaceous substance, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, shouldered at base, less prominently mucronate; corona 10mm long, cup-shaped, angled, mouth expanded, ribbed, lightly frilled and irregularly lobed, with rim dentate. Slightly scented.

Origin of Name

Named for a Cornish place.