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Sonia - Passion Flowers

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Registration Ref. #031 (9/10/2004)<br />

Cultivar Name P. caerulea 'Gala'<br />

Originator Axel Frank (Germany)<br />

Parentage (selection of species)<br />

Description <strong>Flowers</strong> 9-10cm in diameter; petals, creamy white upper surface,<br />

white with central green stripe on lower surface; sepals creamy<br />

white upper surface, greenish on lower surface; corona filaments<br />

in four series: first outer row about 1.7cm long of which inner<br />

0.8cm is black, then 0.2cm white, then 0.7cm violet; second outer<br />

row 1.7-1.9cm long of which inner 0.4cm is black, then 0.2cm<br />

white, then 0.2cm white/blue, then 0.9cm violet; peduncle 8-9cm;<br />

leaves mostly five-lobed. Found in a garden in northern Catalonia,<br />

Spain. Compared to normal cultivated forms of P. caerulea, it has<br />

larger flowers and longer peduncles. Named after the wife of the<br />

artist Dalí, who lived nearby.

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