Painted Desert #244
UnverifiedPSA #244
Colors
YellowPinkOrangeWhite
Description
A cultivar producing 3.5 inch pink flowers with dark pink veins and upturned inner edges. Petals blend from dark pink to white with pink bands on the reverse and yellow-orange center. Features strong, sweet fragrance and large inflorescence. It is an average grower with medium green elliptical leaves with acute tips. Pod parent is Kimi Moragne. Blooms reach up to 5 inches with thick leather-like substance lasting up to 7 days after picking, producing amazing fragrance with extra-large inflorescences.
Appearance
3.5-5 inch pink with dark pink veins, blending to white, upturned inner edges, yellow-orange center, thick substance.
Bloom
Large inflorescences. Blooms last up to 7 days after picking.
Fragrance
Strong, sweet fragrance, amazing fragrance.
Growth & Foliage
Average grower. Medium green elliptical leaves with acute tips.
Provenance
Pod parent: Kimi Moragne.
Also Known As
Details
Hybridizer
Thornton
Parentage
Kimi Moragne
Growth Habit
medium
Species
P. rubra
Sets Seed
No
Source
Thornton
PSA #
244
Size (in)
3.5
Fragrance Strength
strong sweet, inflows amazing
Anecdotal Notes
Diana
3 1/2" pink, dark pink veins. Pink, elliptical moderately overlapped rounded petals 3.5". Upturned inner edges and dark pink veins. Petals blend from dark pink to white. Pink bands on the reverse and a yellow orange center. Strong sweet fragrance. Average grower with large inflorescence. Elliptical leaves are medium green with acute tips. Pod parent: Kimi Moragne. John C had the only plant known and it was lost during the hurricane and the freeze that his greenhouse suffered.... there is one here in So Cal. Blooms reach 5 inches and are thick as leather lasting up to 7 days after picking XL inflows and amazing fragrance
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Size3.5"
Fragrancestrong sweet, inflows amazing
Colors4
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