Nebel's Rainbow #157

According to the record book that Ted Chinn (UH plant breeder from the 1960s) kept, Nebel's Rainbow was collected from the yard of a family named Nebel in Manoa Valley behind the University of Hawaii. From Eggenberger: Large, brilliant yellow flowers (on the coast) with a red band on the front and back of each petal. Petals are wide with rounded tips and a moderate overlap. Texture is heavy and keeping quality very good. 3.5" and a mild, sweet fragrance. Bright yellow, grainy moderate red band on front, strong red band on back, wide petals, rounded tips, moderate overlapping, heavy texture, 3½” , slight sweet fragrance, keeping quality very good. Rangy growth habit. Oblanceolate green leaves with red leaf border. 3” with good substance and excellent keeping quality. Slight sweet peach fragrance. The production is heavy on strong branches. Brilliant yellow with moderate red band on front and back; petal wide, round tip, moderately overlapping; grainy moderate red band on front; strong red solid band on back; heavy texture; 3 1/2"; slight sweet fragrance; keeping quality very good. Large 4" brilliant yellow with a reddish-pink band on the front and rich red band on the reverse. Texture is thick & heavy. Grown in Hawaii for years, golden yellow, with reddish bands on back, petals elliptical to obovate with round tips. Sweet fragrance is mild and production is very heavy on strong dense branching. Large 3” yellow with a moderate red band on front and back. Petals are very wide with rounded tips and moderately overlap. Spectacular Flower, but prone to Black Tip in North America. Medium tree. Can get frozen tips quickly in response to frost but it seem to self limit, drop the black chunk and retipping quickly. Recommended for the coast. A favorite in the art of lei making. Slow root development. Thick petals. Tall. Blooms are redder when they initially open, but the red/pink band quickly fades in the sun to a very light pink. Cold sensitive, prone to black tip when grown in pots. Needs full sun to bloom properly. If grown in ground, will keep leaves in winter. Inflos can turn into multiple branches instead of blooming. Two different NRB – lanky growth and compact growth. The lanky one came from Honolulu and was beautiful there but a hardy fat wood that would black tip and self heal and kept growing. There are two types of Nebels rainbow. Brought one home from Oahu, cutting from a tree at the hotel. I obtained a cutting from a trailer park home in Orange and they said their tree was brought back from the islands many years ago. Side by side the blossoms were identical. The trailer park one was more prolific and covered with blooms. The one i got in Oahu would black tip and heal then bloom late. Both looked and smelled the same. I recently dug out black tip NBR and she went into the trash. I also have Guillot Sunset from Bud and it is upright and tall. I found a cutting from a Vietnamese family in little Saigon/Garden grove area and the blooms are identical to G. Sunset but this tree is lower growing, wider and just a prettier tree growth. Both trees bloom identical but have a different tree shape. In a lei you cannot tell which tree the blooms came from. Petals tend to stick together. Roots grow very quickly. Bright orange, dark pink and yellow with a deep red band on front and back. The petals are wide with rounded tips that overlap, thick petals. Nebel's Rainbow has a mild to heavy sweet scent depends on the humidity. Color gets intense during high humid and high temperature. The flowers have excellent keeping quality. Tends to get fungus on old leaf scars. Sets seed. Nebula Florida Colors Nursery seedling of Pink Pansy. 4 1/2” pink with heavy veining. 4" flower and a heavy bloomer. Medium grower, it does grow more upward than sideways.