Gordon Coombes
Geraldine, New Zealand
Gordon CoombesTom Bloomer, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1964
Mahmoud x Matapan
Woodland Beauty
Douglas and John W. Blanchard, England
Year Registered: 1966
Portrush x Pretty Polly
Kimmeridge
John W. Blanchard, England
Year Registered: 1971
Roimond x Arbar
Purbeck
Fl. 100mm wide; perianth segments 43mm long, roundish, very broad, slightly truncate and mucronate, pure white, spreading, concave, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping a third; the inner segments narrower, broadly ovate, shouldered at base, blunt, less prominently mucronate; corona 10mm long, bowl-shaped, regularly ribbed, yellow, flushed orange, with green at base and a broad band of deep orange at rim, mouth a little expanded, wavy, with rim crenate and broadly flanged. Strongly scented.
Sugar Mountain, 3 W-GYO, Gordon Coombes, New Zealand, 2011
Photo #47779 Colin Crotty, New Zealand