Wax Eye
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Classification:
3 W-Y[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1981
Hybridizer:

Colin Crotty

Geraldine, New Zealand

Colin Crotty

Colin (left) and son-in-law Gordon Coombe

Colin Crotty
, South Island, New Zealand
Registered:
Yes, 1992
Seed Parent: 
Eminent 3 W-GYY 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1963
Green Island x Bithynia
Eminent
Pollen Parent: 
Lysander 2 W-YYO 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1959
Green Island x Chinese White
Lysander
Seedling Number:
29-76
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. rounded, 102 mm wide; perianth segments pure white, smooth, deeply overlapping; corona pale yellow, with a darker tone at base and rim and with strong green noticeable in tube, strong green eye, frilled.

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Wax eyeWax Eye, 3 W-Y, Colin Crotty, New Zealand, 1992
Photo #10716 Colin Crotty, New Zealand