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Originally Posted by tylerumn
That's really interesting. Did the flower of your crosses turn out similar to mine? I suspect with semi-alba x flamea crosses, one would get a mixed variety, some with dominate features of one parent, some in between, and a few unexpected ones.
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Your plant is one of my seedlings. Divisions of ‘Divina’ are around, but I’ve never released divisions of ‘SS’ & ‘HS’.
What your photo & my photos don’t show is relative size. I would guess that your flower is 4” or more. ‘Sakura Snowball’ looks somewhat like ‘Hawaiian Snow’, but even better. And it is really huge … about 5”. ‘HS’ is about 4-1/2”. ‘Divina’ is a small flower, usually no more than 3”. The largest I have bloomed it is 3-1/2”.
I was trying to get a larger, little more rounded flower than 'Divina', with good flaring. I don’t know where you live, but with higher light, your flares would probably be more pronounced. So your flower, with more defined flaring was what I was hoping for. Was the flower in your photo still young. The lip should normally be opened flatter.
Overall, the cross was quite good, some like yours, but a few of the offspring really caught me by surprise ... completely different from either parent.
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