Pink Chalice (aka Chalice Pink)
Krekler sent a list of cultivars he had obtained as seedlings from several breeders to APS but never formally registered them (personal communication, APS Registrar). He called one of the Saunders seedlings ‘Chalice Pink’. I have not found any nurseries offering a ‘Chalice Pink’ but I obtained a plant identified as ‘Pink Chalice’ (Saunders) from a nursery in France and assume this is the plant Krekler had. It is likely the French nurseryman transposed the adjective because, in English, an adjective normally precedes the noun it is describing.
Cultivar: | Pink Chalice (likely Chalice Pink) |
Year: | unknown (Saunders/Krekler) |
Seedling No: | not known, seedling purchased from Saunders by Krekler |
Parentage: | 4: lactiflora X macrophylla |
Flower: | Color: | pink |
Form: | single, 8 petals | |
Blooms: | Week 5 | |
Carpels: | 4-5, greenish yellow, woolly | |
Stigmas: | pale pink (fairly uncommon color) | |
Disc: | white, pink tones | |
Stamens: | filaments light yellow | |
Plant: | Habit: | upright |
Foliage color: | dark green, glossy | |
Foliage form: | crinkled leaves have wavy edges, mostly not lobed | |
Height: | 48″ in 2021 | |
Recommendation: | Recommended |
Availability: | Rare |