White Empress
Classification:
1 W-W[ Trumpet Long-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Registered:
Yes, 1970
Seed Parent: 
Rashee 1 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1952
Cotterton x Broughshane
Rashee
Pollen Parent: 
Empress of Ireland 1 W-W 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1952
Guardian x Kanchenjunga
Empress of Ireland
Seedling Number:
10/18/58
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
3 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 96 mm wide, ice white; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, prominently mucronate, somewhat inflexed, a little creased, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, acute; corona cylindrical, smooth, touched green at base, frilled, with rim rolled and irregularly notched.

According to the 1977 issue of the Rathowen catalog, it states: “base of long trumpet has enchanting touch of green.” It goes on to say that ‘White Majesty’ and ‘White Star’ are sister seedlings.

Origin of Name

Part of Tom Bloomer’s “White” series.