Hybridizer: | Paul Black |
Year Of Registration: | 2003 |
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): | 2004 |
Seedling Number: | E18B |
Classification: | Tall Bearded (TB) |
Registered Height: | 37 inches (94 cm) |
Bloom Season: | Mid |
Flower Form: | Ruffled Laced |
Bloom Color Classification: | Orchid Violet |
Flower Patterns: | Blend |
Bloom Color Description: | Dark rosy purple standards; medium rose purple falls blending to blue violet around beards, tan haft blended light plum |
Beard Color: | Dark orange red, large, usually with two rose purple horns, one fuzzy and one hairless |
Space Age Beard Appendages: | Horns |
Style Arm Color: | Medium rosy purple, sides peach |
Fragrance: | Slight Spicy |
Life cycle: | Perennial |
Sun Requirements: | Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Soil pH Preferences: | Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5) Neutral (6.6 – 7.3) Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8) |
Minimum cold hardiness: | Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35) |
Maximum recommended zone: | Zone 9b |
Flowers: | Showy Fragrant |
Underground structures: | Rhizome |
Propagation: Seeds: | Will not come true from seed |
Propagation: Other methods: | Division |
Ploidy: | Tetraploid |
Parentage: | 89U2, unknown, X To the Point |
Child plants: | one child plant |
Zencat | On May 19, 2018 | Bloomed |
Zencat | On May 21, 2017 | Bloomed |
Zencat | On May 23, 2016 | Bloomed |
Zencat | On August 15, 2015 | Obtained plant |
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