Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1958
Green Island x Chinese White
Aircastle
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1955
(Nelly x Chinese White) x (Tryst x Foggy Dew)
Homage
Fl. rounded, 102 mm wide; perianth segments very broad, rounded at apex, only very slightly mucronate, ivory white, spreading, concave, overlapping half or more; the inner segments a little inflexed; corona shallow bowl-shaped, ribbed, ivory white, with a narrow band of golden yellow at rim, mouth straight, sometimes deeply split and overlapping, frilled. Resembles a whiter ‘Aircastle’ with a slightly larger corona.
Part of Grant Mitsch’s “Bird Series”. Named after the bird, Limpkin, which lives in swamps & woods in southeastern U.S..
Limpkin, 2 W-WWY, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1975
Photo #12318 Lawrence Trevanion, AustraliaLimpkin, 2 W-WWY, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1975
Photo #10363 Gordon Coombes, New ZealandLimpkin, 2 W-WWY, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1975
Photo #4791 Wells Knierim, USA