99 Pale Blue

Name:		Mid
Pod Parent:	89-AX-2	2n = 20
Pollen Parent:	White Caucasus
First bloom:	~2004

 

Diameter (tip to tip):	65 mm	Standard width:	12 mm
Fall blade width:	18 mm	Standard length:	46 mm
Fall length:	48 mm		Partially open
Top of flower:	110 mm	Style lobe width:	13 mm (16)
Bottom of Flower:	60 mm	Style arm length:	38 mm
Leaf height:	105 mm

 

• Lovely waviness along the falls
• For many years an elusive goal was to create a white Reticulata. In the 1970s William van Eeden came up with the pale blue Natascha; in a sense a poor man's white. We now have the beautiful White Caucasus. Does it make sense to introduce a pale blue? I think the truth is this is a lovely Reticulata, and especially so because of its wavy form.
• Similar to, but not the same as, 99-VR-2