Gordon Coombes
Geraldine, New Zealand
Gordon CoombesColin Crotty, New Zealand
Year of first flowering: 1995
Young Nick x Camelot
Solar Disc
Colin Crotty, New Zealand
Year of first flowering: 1981
Irish Mist x Dunmurry
Valley Sun
Fl. 95mm wide; perianth segments 35mm long, very broadly ovate, blunt, mucronate, spreading, plane or with margins incurved, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, scarcely mucronate; corona 28mm long, split to more than half its length, forming an outer and a slightly inflexed inner whorl of three, three-quarters the length of and as wide as the perianth segments and closely overlying them, bi-lobed, with lobes overlapping, lightly frilled. Strongly scented.
Solar Sun, 11a W-Y, Gordon Coombes, New Zealand, 2014
Photo #31003 Gordon Coombes, New Zealand