Quasar
Classification:
2 W-PPR[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 1977
Awards:
Seed Parent: 
Cordial 2 W-P 
Murray Evans, United States
Year Registered: 1970
Pink Lace x Interim
Cordial
Pollen Parent: 
Precedent 2 W-P 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year Registered: 1960
Mabel Taylor x Green Island
Precedent
Seedling Number:
M-49
Pedigree Chart:
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
27 times as seed, 18 times as pollen
Descendants:
Comments

Fl. 90 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, slightly truncate, mucronate, spreading, plane, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, somewhat inflexed, with margins wavy; corona bowl-shaped, smooth at base, ribbed towards mouth, strong yellowish pink, shading to orange-red at mouth, tightly frilled, with rim minutely crenate. Resembles ‘Cool Flame’ but with a whiter perianth and more intensely colored corona.