Len’s Melody Lane

Australian Registration No. 712. Originator and Applicant: originated & grown on by Graeme Oke, 116 Broughton Vale Road, Berry, 2535, NSW, Australia.  Reason for choosing the name; ‘Len Hobb’s found this sport and grafted it in 1987 and we got the original graft in 1991 after Len died’.  The special characteristic of this plant is that it is the ‘Yours Truly’ sport of ‘Melody Lane’ (USA 1951), veined pink and striped red petals, which are edged white.  The plant is slow growing of upright habit.  The flower is medium size, semi to informal double, veined pink, striped red and edged white in colour.  Propagator: propagated since 2000 at Oke’s Camellia Gardens, 116 Broughton Vale Road, Berry, 2535, NSW, Australia.  (Jim Powell, Australian Registrar, 24 July 2017).