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Registration Ref. #109 (8/10/2007)<br />

Cultivar Name P. 'La Morellina'<br />

Originator Maurizio Vecchia (Italy)<br />

Parentage P. ‘Asterix’ ()) × P.amethystina ‘Minas Gerais’ (.)<br />

Description Stem round; flowers 10cm in diameter, not fragrant; petals<br />

purple; sepals ruby red; outer corona filaments dark purple at<br />

base, purple/blue, crinkled to apex; peduncle 13cm; petiole 4cm,<br />

with 3 pairs of sessile, scattered petiole glands; leaves threelobed,<br />

8cm x 7cm; bracts ovate with round apex, 2cm long.<br />

Flowering period June to October. Minimum temperature 5C.<br />

Named after the Tuscany wine ‘Morellino di Scansano’. The<br />

female parent is a complex hybrid of P. ‘Amethyst’.

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