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'Kerttu'

Medium-sized flat, dark blue-purple flowers, outside pale purple with a greenish-purple stripe. Filaments yellowish white; connectives dark violet; anthers violet. Seed-heads persistent.

Group: Late large-flowered group
Approximate height: 2.0 - 2.5 metres
Flowering period(s): Aug Sep Oct
Pruning: Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by: J Räsänen
Country of origin: Finland
Date raised: r 2011 n2013
Parentage: ‘Reetta Lotta’ (s) × ‘Maria Cornelia’
Other name(s): None known

Further detail:

Flower diameter: 9-11 cm
Tepals: 5-6; 4.5-5 cm long × 3.5-4 cm wide, broadly elliptic to slightly obovate, slightly overlapping with margins often bent backwards, rounded to acute at tip, tips slightly recurved