Nadia
My top photo shows a cupped flower but it eventually flattens out as shown in the lower photo. I am still evaluating this young plant.
| Cultivar: | Nadia |
| Year: | 1941 |
| Seedling No: | 10644-M. Pages 22 & 44 of Saunders’ Notebook I |
| Parentage: | 7: lactiflora ‘Marie Jacquin’ X “lobata of Perry” |
| Flower: | Color: | dark cherry, lighter flares |
| Form: | semi-double, 2-3 rows of petals, about 14-18, rather flat | |
| Blooms: | Week 5 | |
| Carpels: | 3-5, light greenish-yellow | |
| Stigmas: | light pink, “pointing together” (Silvia Saunders) | |
| Disc: | white, small | |
| Stamens: | filaments light yellow | |
| Plant: | Habit: | upright |
| Foliage color: | medium green | |
| Foliage form: | narrow, pointed leaves, somewhat incurved | |
| Height: | 38″ (reported); 35″ in 2021 | |
| Recommendation: | Recommended |
| Availability: | Rare |
