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'Fairy Slippers'

Nodding, bell-shaped, flowers, inside cream coloured at the base becoming light purple-pink at the tips and margins, outside light purple towards the tips with pinker veins. Filaments creamy white; anthers creamy grey. Seed heads not persistent.

Group: Viticella group
Approximate height: 2.5 - 3.0 metres
Flowering period(s): Jun Jul Aug Sep
USDA zones: 4 5 6 7 8 9
Pruning: Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by: S Marczynski
Country of origin: Poland
Date raised: r2003 n2021 i2022
Parentage: Seedling of C. crispa x Kermesina
Other name(s): None known

Further detail:

Flower diameter: 5-6 cm
Tepals: 4; 3-5 cm long x 2-3 cm wide, narrowly elliptic, overlapping in basal third to half when fully opened, with slightly wavy margins, long-pointed, tip acute and recurved at apex

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Szczepan Marczynski