Shell Pink
This is another plant I had to purchase twice so my plant is still very young. It seems quite different from other progeny of lactiflora X daurica ssp. macrophylla which may suggest the pollen parent was indeed daurica ssp. tomentosa. A very unusual coloration in the flowers making this quite a distinctive cultivar.
| Cultivar: | Shell Pink |
| Year: | 1939 |
| Seedling No: | 1513. Page 57r of Saunders’ Notebook I |
| Parentage: | 4: lactiflora X macrophylla (from Van Tubergen, possibly tomentosa) |
| Flower: | Color: | pale pink with cast of pale green |
| Form: | single, 10 petals, very crinkled and irregular | |
| Blooms: | Week 2 or 3 | |
| Carpels: | 3, green, very woolly | |
| Stigmas: | bright pink | |
| Disc: | pink, obscure | |
| Stamens: | filaments dark pink/red at base, shading to almost white | |
| Plant: | Habit: | rounded bush |
| Foliage color: | medium green | |
| Foliage form: | medium sized leaves are entire | |
| Height: | 22″ (reported); 29″ in 2021, 24″ in 2022 | |
| Recommendation: | Collectors’ plant] |
| Availability: | Rare; purchased from a now-closed nursery |
