Pirongia Fire
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Classification:
3 Y-YOO[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
2007
Hybridizer:

Graeme and Faith Miller

Tokoroa, New Zealand; Te Awamutu

Graeme and Faith Miller
, North Island, New Zealand
Registered:
Yes, 2017
Seed Parent: 
Trudie May 3 Y-OOR 
G.W.E. Brogden, New Zealand
Year of first flowering: 1978
Dimity x Orator
Trudie May
Pollen Parent: 
Tiamin
Seedling Number:
07-111
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 106mm wide; perianth segments 44mm long, ovate, truncate, light greenish yellow 8C, spreading, plane or with margins incurved, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower; corona 14mm long, cup-shaped, ribbed, vivid orange 28B, with vivid yellow 12A at base, mouth straight, ribbed and frilled, with rim dentate. 

Origin of Name

Part of the Miller’s “Pirongia Series”. Pirongia is the name of the nearest town where the Millers live. It is also the name of a nearby mountain.

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Pirongia FirePirongia Fire, 3 Y-YOO, Graeme and Faith Miller, New Zealand, 2017
Photo #61572 Kirby Fong, USAPirongia FirePirongia Fire, 3 Y-YOO, Graeme and Faith Miller, New Zealand, 2017
Photo #61571 Kirby Fong, USAPirongia FirePirongia Fire, 3 Y-YOO, Graeme and Faith Miller, New Zealand, 2017
Photo #61570 Kirby Fong, USAPirongia FirePirongia Fire, 3 Y-YOO, Graeme and Faith Miller, New Zealand, 2017
Photo #40048 Kirby Fong, USAPirongia FirePirongia Fire, 3 Y-YOO, Graeme and Faith Miller, New Zealand, 2017
Photo #40047 Kirby Fong, USAPirongia FirePirongia Fire, 3 Y-YOO, Graeme and Faith Miller, New Zealand, 2017
Photo #39965 Kirby Fong, USAPirongia FirePirongia Fire, 3 Y-YOO, Graeme and Faith Miller, New Zealand, 2017
Photo #35946 Graeme and Faith Miller, New Zealand