White Star
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:
7/18/58
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as seed, 17 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 115 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt, mucronate, snow white, spreading or very slightly reflexed, plane, smooth, of thick substance, regular, overlapping one-third; the inner segments one-third narrower, acute; corona smooth, with green at base, mouth widely expanded and a little frilled, rim widely rolled, very slightly crenate.

According to the 1977 issue of the Rathowen catalog, it states this flower is a sister seedling of ‘White Empress’ and ‘White Majesty.

Origin of Name

Part of Tom Bloomer’s “White” series.