Your Majesty
There are several heights reported for this plant from 35″ (Wister) – 60″ (APS website). Five feet seems unlikely to me. Also the carpels have been described as white (Wister) and as rose pink (Silvia Saunders). My plant definitely has green carpels so I am not sure if I have the correct plant.
| Cultivar: | Your Majesty |
| Year: | 1947 |
| Seedling No: | 11389. Page 22r of Saunders’ Notebook I |
| Parentage: | 7: lactiflora 3458 X 5267 (5267 = seedling believed to be a lobata) |
| Flower: | Color: | scarlet red |
| Form: | single, two rows of petals | |
| Blooms: | Week 4 or 5 | |
| Carpels: | 4-5, green (mine); rose pink (Silvia Saunders’ notes) | |
| Stigmas: | light pink | |
| Disc: | white, conspicuous | |
| Stamens: | filaments are yellow, abundant stamens, rather dark gold anthers | |
| Plant: | Habit: | upright |
| Foliage color: | medium green | |
| Foliage form: | large leaves, lobed | |
| Height: | tall, 48″ (reported); 44″ in 2021 | |
| Recommendation: | Collectors’ plant |
| Availability: | Few specialty nurseries |
