Wine-red flowers with green filaments. The last listing given by Magnus Johnson for this cultivar is in 1935, Riekstina has the name on a list of 77 cultivars introduced into Latvia between 1870 and 1910. It now appears to be lost from cultivation - please contact us if you know otherwise.

Group: Late large-flowered group
Flowering period(s): Jul Aug Sep Oct
Pruning: Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by: Cripps & Son
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Date raised: c1871
Other name(s): None known

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Thomas Cripps