Ken D. Fink
Ken D. FinkGrant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1952
Cheerio x Market Merry
Ardour
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1960
Ceylon x 2Y-R seedling~ (Narvik x Marksman)
Falstaff
Fl. forming a double triangle, 103mm wide; perianth segments 45mm long, ovate, truncate, yellow, with white mucro, spreading, plane, with midrib showing, of heavy substance, overlapping a third to half; the inner segments narrower, less prominently mucronate; corona 22mm long, cup-shaped, orange with a broad band of red at rim, ribbed, mouth wavy, with rim entire.
At Descanso Show in 1979, Dr. Harold Koopowitz gave the hybridizer a capsule with one stamen of ‘Falstaff’ which resulted in this cultivar.
Named after a friend of the hybridizer, Linda Judith Gardy. Linda’s mother used to call her “Linda Judith”.
Linda Judith, 2 Y-ORR, Ken D. Fink, United States, 2013
Photo #54998 Ken D. Fink, USALinda Judith, 2 Y-ORR, Ken D. Fink, United States, 2013
Photo #51548 Ken D. Fink, USA