Lurline Hybrid Hawaii
Colors
OrangeYellowWhiteRed
Description
Cultivar from Derrick Martin producing 3.5-inch flowers that blend purples, reds, yellows, and pinks, with good keeping quality and a very sweet, pleasant fragrance. An accompanying description of Lurline Matsumoto is included: 2.5 to 3-inch bright white flowers with a small yellow center in very large clusters, with a pure white reverse (no reddish band), lei quality and sweet scent, and elliptical petals with slightly rounded tips. Also noted: flowers with purplish-red tips and outer margins, bright yellow-red inner margin, yellowish-red to red mid-petal with orange throat, red to purplish-red reverse outer band merging with light reddish-yellow inner band, long, wide elliptical petals moderately overlapping with rounded, reflexed tips, medium to thick texture, 3.5 to 4 inches, spicy fragrance, very good keeping quality.
Appearance
Fusion of purples, reds, yellows, and pinks at 3.5 inches.
Fragrance
Very sweet and pleasant.
Provenance
From Derrick Martin.
Also Known As
Details
Hybridizer
Derrick Martin
Growth Habit
medium
Species
P. rubra
Sets Seed
No
Size (in)
2-3
Fragrance Strength
sweet pleasant, sweetly, spicy
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Size2-3"
Fragrancesweet pleasant, sweetly, spicy
Colors4
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