Malcolm Wheeler
Southbridge, New Zealand
Malcolm WheelerG.W.E. Brogden, New Zealand
Year of first flowering: 1980
Guiding Light x (Verona x unknown)
Florence Joy
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1952
Guardian x Kanchenjunga
Empress of Ireland
Fl. forming a double triangle, 117 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, scarcely mucronate, spreading, plane, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate; corona somewhat funnel-shaped, opening creamy white, becoming white with maturity, smooth at base, loosely ribbed in upper half, mouth straight, lightly frilled, with rim more or less entire.
Named for the Fiordland National Park, in Southwest New Zealand.
Fiordland Star, 2 W-W, Malcolm Wheeler, New Zealand, 2006
Photo #48426 Kirby Fong, USAFiordland Star, 2 W-W, Malcolm Wheeler, New Zealand, 2006
Photo #48425 Kirby Fong, USAFiordland Star, 2 W-W, Malcolm Wheeler, New Zealand, 2006
Photo #14995 Malcolm Wheeler, New ZealandFiordland Star, 2 W-W, Malcolm Wheeler, New Zealand, 2006
Photo #14994 Malcolm Wheeler, New ZealandFiordland Star, 2 W-W, Malcolm Wheeler, New Zealand, 2006
Photo #10886 Kirby Fong, USAFiordland Star, 2 W-W, Malcolm Wheeler, New Zealand, 2006
Photo #10885 Kirby Fong, USA