Starlight
So far I am not as impressed with this quadruple hybrid as I am with several other cultivars in this category. It does bloom before many of the Saunders hybrids and its early bloom time is appreciated.
| Cultivar: | Srarlight |
| Year: | 1949 |
| Seedling No: | 16285. |
| Parentage: | 28: lactiflora X (officinalis X (mlokosewitschii X macrophylla)) |
| Flower: | Color: | ivory with faint pink in center, fading to pure white |
| Form: | single, 2 rows of about 10 petals | |
| Blooms: | Week 3 | |
| Carpels: | 2, pale green, glabrous | |
| Stigmas: | blush white | |
| Disc: | white, partial, obscure | |
| Stamens: | filaments light yellow | |
| Plant: | Habit: | rounded bush |
| Foliage color: | medium green | |
| Foliage form: | narrow leaves, not lobed | |
| Height: | 23″ in 2021 | |
| Recommendation: | Collectors’ plant |
| Availability: | Few specialty nurseries |
