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'Advent Bells'
Small, bell-shaped, nodding, flowers; inside cream with irregular red markings (veining or stippling), outside pinkish cream. Filaments cream or green with pink stippling, anthers reddish-pink. Semi-evergreen.
Group: Cirrhosa group
Approximate height: 3.0 - 5.0 metres
Flowering period(s): Nov Dec Jan
Pruning: No pruning (Group 1)
Raised by: Roy Nunn
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Date raised: rb2009 n2009
Parentage: napaulensis (s) x cirrhosa var purpurascens 'Freckles'
Other name(s): None known
Further detail:
Tepals: 4; 3.5cm long, 1.6cm wide, touching, long-pointed, tips slightly recurved