Silken Sails
Classification:
3 W-WWY[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 1964
Special Class:
Seed Parent: 
Green Island 2 W-GWY 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
Gracious x Seraglio
Green Island
Pollen Parent: 
Chinese White 3 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1937
Silver Plane x (Silver Coin x unknown)
Chinese White
Seedling Number:
M33/10
Pedigree Chart:
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
18 times as seed, 3 times as pollen
Descendants:
Comments

Fl. 115 mm wide; perianth segments somewhat acute, pure white, very smooth, deeply overlapping; corona almost disc-shaped, grayish white, with a narrow band of lemon yellow at rim becoming near white. Resembles a larger-flowered ‘Chinese White’ of better poise.