Cooktown Sunset
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Not Cookstown (sic). Orange and Pink 3-4” with fruity and spicy fragrance. Beautiful tropical mix of colors. 3" and a great fragrance. Large, full heads which are highly visible even from a distance. Average to upright growth habit. Very tall. Temperamental, tough to bloom, dies back in winter. Tough to root, but easy to graft. Lovely bright yellow with pinkish-red band and a floral scent. Either a seedling of Ruby Gold or one of the parents of Ruby Gold. A nice intense rainbow of reddish-pink to hot pink to yellow, petal slightly overlapped with a sweet gardenia fragrance, 3", hot pink band on the back. Tall tree with bright 3" multicolor fruit salad flowers. Floppy, needs to be staked. Very slow to root – 6 months. Performs better with low water. Tall. Open and rounded—branches long and leggy shape. Dense round clusters, free flowering. Acuminate, Elliptic, Mid Green leaves, Red veins with red leaf edge, Petiole are Red / Brown and smooth (glabrous). Yellow and cerise, yellow band and cerise band both come from the centre. Golden yellow on leading edge, blending to Cerise on trailing edge for entire length of petals. 60/40 % yellow cerise. Thick band of yellow fading to thin band of white then thick band of cerise on back. Slight veins. 8 cm, acuminate with pointed tip, Petals overlap neatly, color is intense. Scent is medium-strong, combined fruity and spicy. Pink buds. Depending on time of year, fades to pale yellow and pale cerise. Needs excellent soil porosity to survive in cold climates. Cool Aid grape kool-aid scent, medium to light pink, but not a bright or eye catching pink, fades considerably in one day in the Florida sun. Large well shaped flowers with Cherry Kool Aid fragrance. Pink with a grainy look. 2.5” with a cherry cool-aid fragrance. Good keeping quality. Upright with medium wood and a heavy bloomer. Pink with egg yolk orange center. 4" Round shaped slightly overlapping flowers. The flowers fade to almost white with a yellow throat and a pink line on the margin of the back. Nice 3" mauve blooms, medium grower. Sets seed.
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