Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1952
Cotterton x Broughshane
Rashee
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1952
Guardian x Kanchenjunga
Empress of Ireland
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.
Part of Tom Bloomer’s “White” series.
White Empress, 1 W-W, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1970
Photo #40822 Derrick Turbitt, Northern IrelandWhite Empress, 1 W-W, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1970
Photo #5024 Wells Knierim, USA