Data specific to Daylilies (Edit)
AHS link: AHS Daylily Cultivar Info
Hybridizer: Stamile
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1996
Foliage type: Dormant
Scape height: 25 inches
Bloom size: 5.5 inches
Bloom time: Early midseason
Plant Traits: Extended Bloom
Rebloom
Rust Resistance: Shows Susceptibility
Fertility: Pod Fertile
Pollen Fertile
Bloom Traits: Eye or Band
Bloom Form: Single
Color description: pink with rose raspberry charcoal and yellow eyezone above a green throat
AHS Awards: Award of Merit: 2004
Honorable Mention: 2001
JC: 1996
RWM: 2003

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: Exotic Candy x Rainbow Eyes
Child plants: 58 child plants

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Location: Koeln,  Germany
Date: 2012
Location: Elberfeld, Indiana
Date: 2018-06-26
Location: My garden
Date: 2010 july
interesting eye
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Location: My garden in Warrenville, SC
Date: 2016-06-01
Makes a beautiful well-spaced clump

Date: 2021-06-15
Mystical rainbow
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
Date: 2020-06-21
Location: Cantonment, FL
Date: 2014-06-16
Location: southern KY
Date: 6/15/2019
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
Date: 2007-06-11
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Date: 2022-06-24
Location: southern KY
Date: 2018-06-18
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Location: My garden in Lake Elmo, MN
Date: 2019-08-03
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Location: my garden-zone 6b
Date: 2023-06-27
Location: My garden in Warrenville, SC
Date: 2016-06-01

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Location: Concord, NC zone 7
Date: 2016-05-30
Location: Cantonment, FL
Date: 2014-06-16

Date: 2013-12-01
Location: Gulf-coast Texas
Date: 2015-05-16

Date: 1980-01-01

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Location: southern KY
Date: 2019-06-20
Location: Kalama, Wa
Date: 2011-07-13
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Location:  NH
Date: 2008-07-19
Location: Franklin, TN (near Nashville)
Date: 2011-06-05
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Location: Central MD zone 6
Date: 2014-07-27
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Location: Melvindale, Mi
Date: 6/13
Location: Haley Springs Farm
Date: 2018-06-23
Location: all photos from my gardens
Date: 2020-05-23

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Location: My garden in northeast Texas
Date: 2012-05-25

Date: 2006-07-22
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Location: Jones OK,
Date: June 2015
Mystical Rainbow

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Date: 2018-06-04
Location: KALAMA WA
Date: 2016-06-04
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Location: Granby
Date: 2016-07-23
special form of Mystical Rainbow

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Location: In my garden in Lenore, ID
Date: 6-29-14
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Location: BX Creek Daylilies, Vernon, BC.
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Location: Elberfeld, Indiana
Date: 2012-06-09

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Location: In my garden in Lenore, ID
Date: 7-3-2014
Location: Jones OK,
Date: June 2015
Mystical Rainbow
Location: My garden
Date: 2010 july

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Location: My Yard, Zone 6a
Date: 7-2008
Location: My Yard, Zone 6a
Date: 2016-07-09
Location: My Yard, Zone 6a
Date: 2012-07-02
Location: My Yard, Zone 6a
Date: 2012-07-02
Location: Melvindale, Michigan
Date: 2014-07-04
Mystical Rainbow

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Location: Winston-Salem, NC
Date: 2017-10-23
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
Date: 2017-11-12

Close up of eye in UK
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Location: Gulf-coast Texas
Date: 2015-05-16
Location: Haley Springs Farm
Date: 2020-06-18
Location: My garden, North Central Idaho
Date: 6-20-2015
Location: My garden in Kalama, Wa. Zone 8
Date: 2013-06-20
Poly bloom
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Location: Melvindale, Michigan
Date: 2014-07-04
Location: In my garden in Lenore, ID
Date: 6-29-14
Location: My garden, North Central Idaho
Date: 7-4-2014

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Date: 2008-07-16
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
Date: 2018-06-01
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: Mid Summer
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Location: Elberfeld, Indiana
Date: 2013-02-02
Location: Elberfeld, Indiana
Date: 2012-06-15
Location: Kalama, Wa
Date: 2011-07-17
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Comments:
  • Posted by Scatterbrain (Yorkshire, UK - Zone 8a) on Oct 2, 2017 6:48 AM concerning plant:
    One of my clearest pinks here in the UK, true pink here not peachy, eye is not always clear in the UK climate but it is always beautiful. Good strong plant and fertile both ways here. In periods of good weather the eye is very pretty.
  • Posted by Avedon (NE Tex - Zone 8a) on Aug 24, 2012 12:36 PM concerning plant:
    First season in our garden, and we love it. It has bloomed very well.
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