Nikki Koko
Classification:
2 W-WYP[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
2003
Hybridizer:

Clay Higgins

Clay Higgins
, New Jersey, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2014
Seed Parent: 
Geometrics 2 W-Y 
Sidney DuBose, United States
Year of first flowering: 1979
Precedent x Camelot
Geometrics
Pollen Parent: 
Pink Silk 1 W-P 
Richard and Elise Havens, United States
Year Registered: 1980
At Dawning x Graduation
Pink Silk
Seedling Number:
02-03
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 78mm wide, facing slightly upwards; perianth segments 30mm long, very broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, white, spreading, plane or with margins incurved towards apex, with midrib showing, of heavy substance; the inner segments narrower, shouldered at base, less prominently mucronate; corona 33mm long, cylindrical, angled, yellow, with a broad band of white at base and a band of pink at rim, mouth narrowly flared, broadly ribbed and lightly frilled, with rim entire.

Origin of Name

When the hybridizer’s daughter was born her 3 year old brother had a hard time pronouncing Nicole. He called her Nikki Koko and it stuck until college. She is back being Nicole now.