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'Wee Willie Winkie'
Photo © 2006 Malcolm Ovens
Bud - Photo © 2006 Malcolm Ovens
Small, mid-pink flowers, shading to white at the centre and base of the tepals. White filaments and anthers. Mid-green foliage, but new growth is brownish. Selected from a batch of seedlings belonging to the montana group. 'Wee Willie Winkie' is a character in a nursery rhyme.
Group: Montana group
Flowering period(s): Apr May
Aspect: Any aspect
Pruning: No pruning (Group 1)
Raised by: Robin Mitchell
Country of origin: New Zealand
Date raised: 2001
Parentage: Unknown
Other name(s): None known
Further detail:
Flower diameter: 4-4.5cm
Tepals: 4; 2-2.5cm long, 1.2-1.5cm wide, elliptic, blunt, margin wavy
Leaves: ternate