Rushlight
The first plant I purchased as ‘Rushlight’ turned out to be ‘Lady Gay’ but I obtained the real thing from a friend in 2020. I was excited to see it bloom in 2021.
| Cultivar: | Rushlight |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Seedling No: | 16344/16363. Page 2a of Saunders’ Notebook I |
| Parentage: | 26: lactiflora X ‘Gwenda’; ‘Gwenda’ is F2 of (tenuifolia X mlokosewitschii) |
| Flower: | Color: | ivory |
| Form: | single, 2 rows of about 10 petals, crinkled and ruffled | |
| Blooms: | [BLOOM] | |
| Carpels: | 4, light green, very woolly | |
| Stigmas: | dark red | |
| Disc: | dark red | |
| Stamens: | filaments red only at very base, shading to yellow for about 80% of their length | |
| Plant: | Habit: | upright |
| Foliage color: | medium green leaves, some red at stem nodes | |
| Foliage form: | [FORM] | |
| Height: | 29″ (reported); 25″ in 2022 on a second year plant | |
| Recommendation: | Collectors’ plant |
| Availability: | Rare |
