Official Descriptions of Back Acres Azaleas
The Royal Horticultural Society
Apricot Honey :
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
111-56-1
('Kagetsu X Indicum) X ('Mucronatum >< Kaempferi)
X 'Tamasugata; evergreen to semievergreen; 10 year old plant about
30 inches tall, upright in habit; leaves narrow, light green;
flowers single, 2-3 per head, 2 to 2 3/4 inches in diameter, lobes overlapping,
centers light, between Hermosa Pink and white, margins broad between Hermosa
Pink and Geranium Pink (Ridgway), dots of blotch area almost Carmine on
the color margin and Ochraceous-Buff on light Center areas, pistil normal.
To assure the light centers on this planet, like all others, must reach
a stage of growth with many flowering twigs.
'Badinage'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
25-49-2
('Vittata Fortunei' X 'Mucronatum') X (Kaempferi >< 'Shinnyo no
Tsuki' ); evergreen, 4 feet high and broad after 10 years;
flowers double, 2 1/2 to 3 inches with graduated petals, irregular
white center, broad margins of Deep Rose-Pink washed with a Alizarine
Pink (Ridgway).
'Bergerette'
Ben Morrison drew this plant under the number:
134-49-1
Seedling #32666 X 'Musashino; evergreen, 4 and 1/2
feet tall after 10 years; flowers single, flat, 2 to
2 1/2 inches, tinted white, color faint and not nameable, washed from the
edge with varying degrees of pink hue that is between La France Pink and
Shrimp Pink, towards white, rather than in the pure tone, dots of blotch
area not conspicuous but a little darker than Shrimp Pink (Ridgway).
'Bouffant'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
127-47-1
Dream - ('Mucronatum' X 'Simcil' pink clone) X 'Gunrei;
semievergreen; 10 year-old plant 30 inches tall and wide; leaves abundant,
narrow, and somewhat yellow green; flowers single, 2
to 2 1/2 inches diameter, 2 to 3 per head, with good lobes and somewhat
ruffle, not frilled margins, color deepest in throat, margins almost white,
shading inwards to Pale Amaranth Pink to Deep Rose-Pink in very center,
dots of blotch area small but distinct, Tyrian Pink (Ridgway). Very
floriferous.
'Bourdon'
Ben Morrison grew this under the number:
166-49-2
('Vittata Fortunei X 'Warai Gishi') X (Pluto(an old Southern Indica)
semievergreen to evergreen, 4 feet tall and broad after 10 years;
flowers early, double, 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inch, 9 to 12 petals, between Amaranth
Purple, dots on upper petals coming from blotch area Dahlia Purple (Ridgway),
pistols usually present and sometimes a few stamen; in Mr. Morrison's
Garden shows a distinct tendency to flower in autumn and is used as an
accent plant in landscape work.
'Brides Bouquet'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
35-57-6
('Warai Gishi X 'Kagetsu ) X 'Rogetsu; evergreen,
foliage dark green "Macrantha"-type, but ends more rounded, habit
somewhat columnar; flowers double, about 2 to 2 1/2 inches
diameter, the 15 to 20 petals are graduated in size and create a gardenia-like
effect, pure white with no sign of any spotty and no sign of any sporting
to color, pistil normal but only an occasional stamen or trace of anther.
This clone is early to flower among its kin and in mid-May in Mississippi.
'Cayenne'
Ben Morrison grew this under the number:
166-49-3
('Vittata Fortunei' X 'Warai Gishi' ) X Pluto;
semievergreen to evergreen, four feet tall and broad after 10 years;
flowers early, double, 11/2 to 13/4 inches, 12 to 16 petals very pointed,
somewhat shovel-shaped, Rose Doree, dots on upper petals Tyrian Rose (Ridgway),
unopened buds carry a much darker hue, almost Carmine.
'Cora Brandt'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-8
Kagetsu' X 'Warai Gishi; evergreen azalea;
flowers double, 12 to 20 petals, was a tendency to an implicated flower,
usually with neither pistol nor stamen but sometimes will set seeds and
give some pollen, Scarlet sometimes with Garnet Brown dots; usually one
of the last in May to flower.
'Coral Ace'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
325-49-1
Troubadour' X #158057;
evergreen; flowers single, 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches diameter,
freely produced, white center with variable margins of a color brighter
than Old Rose (Ridgway), dots of blotch Begonia Red on white ground but
Tyrian rose if they overlap on to the colored margins.
'Corinne Murrah'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
222-49-11
'Kagetsu X ('Hazel Dawson X Indicum); Evergreen;
four feet in 10 years; flowers single, 3 to 3 1/4 broad,
margins Deep Rose-Pink (Ridgway) shades towards the outer edges with Amaranth
Pink, center white, margins of lobes ruffled and always sinuete; late mid-season.
'Crescendo'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
329-49-3
Parentage unknown; evergreen;
late flowering, double, 10 to 16 petals, camellia type with pistols well
imbricated, between Scarlet and Peach Red (Ridgway).
'Debonaire'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
203-49-1
Copperman' X 'Hakata Shiro'; evergreen
azalea; flowers single, 2 1/2 to 3 inches
broad, ground color LaFrance Pink (Ridgeway) darkening to Rose in Pink
on edges of lobe, center faintly greenish; Hardy in gardens
north of Past Christian; very late.
'Elise Norfleet'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-1
Kagetsu' X 'Warai Gishi; Evergreen,
10-year-old plant two feet tall; flowers single, 2 to
2 1/2 inches wide, Scarlet Red, center variable in diameter, La France
Pink, dots on upper Carmine (Ridgway).
Encore'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-9
Kagetsu' X 'Warai Gishito him; evergreen, 3 1/2 feet
tall, four feet broad after 10 years; late flowering
double, 2 3/4 to three inches diameter, 14 to 18 petals, Rose (Ridgway),
few dots not conspicuous but the flowers appearing to have an undertone
of yellow.
'Extravaganza'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
129-49-2
seedling #32629 X 'Tama Sugata'; semievergreen, particularly
in dry season, and with conspicuous autumn flowering in this south in USA;
10-year-old plant four feet high and about three feet broad,
flowers single, 3 1/4 to 3 1/2 inch diameter, with widely overlapping petals
and rather flat carriage, white ground heavily striped, flaked and dotted
with Tyrian Pink (Ridgway), no two flowers alike, an occasional sector
of game, dots of blotch area small, heavy and distinct, Amaranth Purple
(Ridgway).
Fire Magic
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-11
(Vittata Fortunei' X 'Warai Gishi) X 'Pluto; Evergreen,
10-year-old plant 4 to 4 1/2 feet tall, rather columnar in habit and very
free flowering from top to bottom; flowers early,
double, 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inches diameter, 16 to 22 petals narrow and pointed,
Rose Doree (Ridgway) and the dots Spectrum Red (Ridgway); pistil usually
present, stamens rarely.
'Folksong'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
97-49-1
Seedling 36/45 X 'Shikuno; evergreen: 10 year old
plant 2 1/2 feet tall and broad; flowers single, 2 3/4
inch diameter, petals overlapping, white with heavy and showy blotch of
sharply divided dots of a hue between Light Jasper Pink (Ridgway); that
is a faint tinting at times on the white ground and a rare stripe of a
hue between Rose and Old Rose (Ridgway).
'Friendship'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
202-49-1
Kagetsu' X 'Copperman; evergreen,
flowers single, 2 3/4 to three inches diameter, petals overlapping, Rose
(Ridgway), with dots in blotch areas only a little darker and showing merely
an intensification of the self color; most striking when
planted in masses; mid-season too late flowering.
'Garnet Royal'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
166-49-8
(Vittata Fortunei X Warai Gishi ) X 'Pluto; evergreen;
10-year-old plant four feet tall and broad; flowers double,
1 1/4 to 13/8 inches diameter, 16 to 20 petals, Pomegranate Purple (Ridgway)
closing to Acajou Red (Ridgway), bases of petals lighter,
carriers in garden effects as Bordeaux (Ridgway); the
darkest in this series of early flowering doubles.
'Gratitude'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-8 (7)
Kagetsu' X 'Warai Gishi; evergreen; ten-year old
plant 14 inches with spread of 24 inches, type of grow as in "Balsaminaeflorum"
but more vigorous; late flowering, double, 10 to 15 petals
imbricated but more like a peony type camellia bloom, Deep Rose-Pink (Ridgway)
with few dots of Tyrian Pink deep down near base of petals.
'Habanera'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
121-49-1
(Indicum orange clone X 'Hatsusime') X 'Tama Sugata;
evergreen; ten-year old plant not more than four feet, twiggy, and when
once twig patterns are established, flowering is as heavily as in a kurume
clone; flower a single, 2 to 2 1/4 inch diameter, irregular
white center with margins of Tyrian Pink, blotch area conspicuous
with dots of Tyrian Rose (Ridgway).
'Hearthglow'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-2
Kagetsu X Warai Gishi; Evergreen; four feet
tall and broad after ten years; late flowering; flowers
double, 10 to 15 pistals, imbricated, Rose Doree (Ridgway) flushed Scarlet
from center.
'Heigh-Ho'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
121-49-1
Seedling #32629 X 'Tama Sugata; a sister seedling
to Extravaganza; semievergreen, especially in dry season;
flowers single, of fine circular form with overlapping lobes, Rose with
faintly darkening tinting towards margin and a conspicuous blotch of heavy
patterned distinct dots of Tyrian Rose tending towards Amaranth Purple
and extending halfway across upper two lateral lobes (Ridgway).
distinct from the self colored sports which sometimes show on a sister
seedling; it is not a propagation from such.
'Heirloom'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
222-49-3
Kagetsu' X Seedling 32666 (indicum X 'Hazel Dawson);
Evergreen to semievergreen; 10-year-old plant four feet high;
flowers single, three inches diameter, center white, margin between Tyrian
Pink and Mallow Purple (Ridgway), dots in blotch area conspicuous, brownish
towards Rhodamine Purple when they overlap on the colored border of the
upper lobes.
'Ivan Anderson'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
40-57-30
('Warai Gishi' X 'Horaku') X Kokoku; evergreen;
seven-year-old plant two feet tall; flowers double, petals
of graduated sizes, 10 to 15, smaller toward center and sometimes with
a little petaloidy, 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches diameter, irregular white center,
broad margins of Tyrian Rose tending towards Amaranth Purple (Ridgway).
'Keepsake'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
222-49-2
Kagetsu' X Seedling 32666 (indicum X 'Hazel Dawson);
evergreen; ten-year old plant about 4 1/2 feet high and
about three feet broad; flowers late mid-season, single,
2 1/2 to 3 inches diameter, base white, in somewhat starry pattern, margins
between Mallow Purple and Tyrian Pink (Ridgway), the pink being the more
conspicuous color, dots in blotch area conspicuous and showing slightly
brownish on the white ground.
'Largesse'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-5
Kagetsu X 'Warai Gishi; evergreen;
ten-year-old plant four feet tall and broad; flowers
late, double, 15 to 20 petals, somewhat lose in form, 2 1/4 inch diameter,
Deep Rose-Pink with a few dots of Rose Red (Ridgway) deep down on the bases
of the upper petals.
'Lost Chord'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
17-49-1
('Dream X Luna ('Mucronatum >( simsii) X (Kaempferi X 'Shinnyo no Tsuki);
semievergreen; 15 year-old plant about five feet, columnar habit;
flowers single, about three inches diameter, circular in form with overlapping
lobes, margins Rose Red, centers paler than Rose Pink (Ridgway), dots of
the blotch area distinct, small, Deep Rose-Pink, stamens 10, pistil normal.
Until the plant is well furnished with a blooming twigs, only about 50
percent of blooms show the light centers.
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'Malaguena'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
166-49-5
(Vittata Fortunei X Warai Gishi) X Pluto; semievergreen
to evergreen; flowers early, double, 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inch diameter, 12 to
16 petals, Begonia Rose flushed Rose Doree (Ridgway), dots on upper petals
Tyrian Rose, pistil usually present, stamens missing. In Mr. Morrison's
Garden shows strong tendency to autumn as well as spring flowering.
Garden effect of bloom is brilliant Coral Pink.
'Margaret Douglas'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
123-49-2
(Indicum X Hatsushimo) X Shinsei; evergreen; four feet high after 10
years; flowers single, 2 3/4 to 3 inch diameter, large central area Hermosa
Pink (Ridgway), margins fairly uniform in width about 3/8 inch Begonia
Rose, unopened buds carry as Rose Doree.
'Marian Lee'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
222-49-9
Kagetsu X (Hazel Dawson X Indicum); plant four
feet high in 10 years, semievergreen but almost completely evergreen in
milder winters; leaves narrow; flowers 2
1/2 to 3 inches diameter, white centers washed over with Alizarine Pink
(Ridgway), borders of varying width, from 1/4 to 3/8 inch NOPAL RED Nopal
Red, dots in blotch area not conspicuous but darker Alizarine Pink; late
mid season in Mississippi, late May in North. They free flowering
and
described as the effect of butterflies. Grown only in 2 northern
Gardens where it was completely cold hardy. Parents all cold hardy
in Washington, D.C.
'Marion Armstrong'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-17
Kagetsu X Warai Gishi; evergreen; 10-year-old plant five
feet tall, spreading to 3 to 3 1/2 feet; flowers double, 14 to 20 petals,
flat like a formal camellia; Begonia Rose (Ridgway) were very few dots
of Carmine on upper lobes, some autumn bloom in Mr. Morrison's garden.
'Maud Jacobs'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-11
Kagetsu X Warai Gishi; evergreen; 15 year-old bush now
about 20 inches tall and 24 inches wide (this may be less than normal on
account of cuttings haven't been taken); flowers double,
15 to 20 overlapping petals, 3 to 3 1/4 inch diameter, Tyrian Pink (Ridgway)
with a few dots of Tyrian Rose in the blotch area, few, if any, stamens,
pistil apparently normal. The chief value of this clone is
the low spreading habit and extreme floriferousness.
'May Blaine'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-15
Kagetsu X Warai Gishi; evergreen; 10 year old
plant 3 1/2 feet tall and broad; flowers late, double, 2 1/2
to 3 inches diameter, 12 to 16 imbricated petals, flat like formal camellia,
Light Mallow Purple, dots on upper lobes, few, Tyrian Rose (Ridgway), pistil
usually perfect, few, if any, stamens. Garden effect of light
lavender.
'Merrymaker'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-22
Kagetsu X Warai Gishi; evergreen;
flowers late, double, with a somewhat rosette type of the doubling, 10
to 15 petals, 2 1/4 to 2 3/8 inch diameter, between Scarlet and Peach Red
(Ridgway).
'Miss Jane'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-12
Kagetsu X Warai Gishi; evergreen; 10-year-old
plant about two feet high and broad; flowers late, double with
many petaloid stamens, some stamens, and loose arrangement of the 10 to
18 rounded petals, 2 2 2 1/4 inch diameter, center irregularly white, sometime
tinted, borders between Rose Pink and Pale Amaranth Pink (Ridgway).
'Misty Plum'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
222-49-4
Kagetsu X seedling 32666 (indicum X Hazel Dawson);
semievergreen to evergreen; flowers 2 1/2 to 2
3/4 inches diameter, single, somewhat funnel shaped, center white with
the smallest amount of white on their uppermost lobe, margins Mallow Purple
(Ridgway), dots in the blotch area Aster Purple with a faint greenish wash
over the blotch area as well.
'Moresea'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
166-49-1
(Vittata Fortunei X Warai Gishi) X Pluto;
semievergreen to evergreen; 10-year-old plant four feet tall and broad;
flowers early, double, 1 1/4 to 1 1/3 inch diameter, 15 to 20 petals, Amaranth
Pink and petals corresponding to upper lobes shaded with Light Phlox
Purple, dots on blotch area Tyrian Rose (Ridgway); and garden effect of
a purplish rose. In Mr. Morrison's garden shows a marked tendency
to all from as as well as spring bloom.
'Orange Flare'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-19A
Kagetsu X Warai Gishi; evergreen to semievergreen;
10-year-old plant about 18 inches tall and as wide, gross somewhat erect
and close; flowers double, 2 1/2 to 3 inches diameter, petals somewhat
narrow and clearly cut to base, inner bass of each petal between a hue
paler than La France Pink or Hermosa Pink, the tips between Geranium Pink
and Rose Doree, no blotch area, no trace of stamens and, when present,
pistil usually normal though in most cases with a petaloid flag; the flowers
to approach a tassel like form and all very striking; late in bloom, end
of May and early June in Mississippi.
'Painted Tips'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
89-54-1
Seedling 79/49 (Seedling 38/45 X Cavendish) X Shinnyo
no Tsuki; evergreen to semi evergreen;
low growing with spreading habit, 10-year-old plant now about 20 inches
tall and wider in spread; flowers single, 2 to
3 inches diameter, not much overlapping of lobes, ground color an off white
with a slight flush of La France Pink near the tips that are blotched with
spot of Rose Doree (Ridgway), the blotch area distinct but not showy, Pinkish
Vinaceous, stamens five, pistil Rose Doree; late in bloom, end of May in
Mississippi
'Pat Kraft'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
204-49-1
Copperman X Hakatashiro; evergreen, 2 to 2 1/2 feet tall after 10 years;
flowers single, 3 to 3 1/4 inch diameter, sometimes with six lobes instead
of the usual five, Scarlet-Red, dots of blotch area Tyrian Rose (Ridgway);
very late.
'Rachel Cunningham'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
164-49-1
Seedling 32619 X Pluto; semievergreen;
leaves yellow green; plant four feet tall and 10 years;
flowers double, 2 3/4 to 3 inches diameter, 17 to 20 petals making pompon
shaped flower, Rose Doree deepening to Scarlet-Red in center of each petal
(Ridgway); pistil perfect, stamens rare or vestigial.
'Red Slipper'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
292-50-1
(Andros X Parade) X Keisets = (Vittata Fortunei X Warai Gishi) X (Kaempferi
X Mucronatum) X Keisetsu; evergreen to semi evergreen;
10-year-old plant about 24 inches by 24 inches, but the plant has been
crowded and these measurements may give a faults impression;
flowers single with occasional petaloidy of stamens, 2 1/2 2 3 inches diameter,
2 to 4 per head, freely produced and some tendency to autumn and winter
bloom in Mississippi, Rose Red, with dots of blotch area distinct though
not show a, of Pomegranate Purple (Ridgway) which gives only the affect
of deeper color at base of flower, stamens five, some petaloidy, pistil
normal.
'Rejoice'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
256-49-1 A
Kagetsu' X Warai Gishi; evergreen; 10-year-old plant
four feet tall and almost as broad, growth habit more open and other siblings;
flowers late, double 10 to 12 petals opening widely as in a semi double
rose, but individual petals rounded and well imbricated, between Rose Pink
and Rose (Ridgway), with some dotting in blotch area of upper petals, Tyrian
Rose, pistil and stamens often malformed.
'Rose Brocade'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
255-49-3
Kagetsu X Warai Gishi; evergreen; 15 year-old bush
now about four feet tall and almost as broad; flowers
double, 2 1/2 to 3 inches diameter, 15 to 20 petals, broad, overlapping,
Rose (Ridgway) small traces of Tyrian Rose in blotch area of uppermost
petals, no stamens, pistil, if present, apparently normal.
'Saint James'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under the number:
23-49-1
Cross 23/45; evergreen; four feet tall after
10 years; flowers single, 2 3/4 to 3 inches diameter,
Rose Doree washed with Peach Red, dots not showy that making a tone of
Tyrian Rose in blotch area (Ridgway), central white area somewhat starry
in shape or outline and not consistent in appearance; late blooming.
'Spring Bonnet'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under number:
66-49-1
Parentage unknown; semievergreen, foliage
excellent and ample at blooming time; 10-year-old plant 4 1/2 to five feet,
somewhat opened in habit; flowers single, 2 to
2 3/4 inches diameter, 2 to 3 per head, lobes nicely overlapping; a garden
effect of clear pale pink, center of each flower almost white with a deepening
tone to the margins of pale Amaranth Pink, almost Amaranth Pink on actual
margins (Ridgway), dots of blotch area distinct, darkening, when on the
deeper tone of lobes, to Tyrian Pink; stamens five to eight, pistil normal;
bloom in early May in Mississippi.
'Starflre'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under number:
166-49-7
(Vittata Fortunei X Warai Gishi) X Pluto; evergreen
to semievergreen; 10-year-old plant about four feet tall and broad;
flowers and early, double, 1 1/2 to 1 3/8 inches diameter, 16 to 18 petals,
Geranium Pink, dots on upper lobes Tyrian Rose (Ridgway), pistil usually
missing, stamens rally; garden effect of bright coral pink but distinct
from 'Malaguena'; strong tendency to autumn bloom as well as spring flowering
in Mr. Morrison's garden.
'Stormcloud'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under number:
255-49-18
Kagetsu' X 'Warai Gishi; evergreen; 10-year-old plant
four feet tall and broad; flowers late, double but appearing
like a single flower with a crest of small irregular inner petals, some
of them with the vestiges of anthers showing, Mallow Purple with blotch
area Aster Purple (Ridgway) showing only towards the basses of the petals
in the upper section.
'Target'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under number:
unknown
Parentage not reported; evergreen; about 4 1/2 feet
high after 10 years; flowers single, 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches
diameter, Begonia Rose shaving towards Spectrum Red, the dots of the blotch
area on not conspicuous though giving the affect of Nopal Red (Ridgway);
late mid-season.
'Tharon Perkins'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under number:
unknown
Parentage not reported; evergreen; about three feet
after 10 years; flowers single, 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches
diameter, Geranium Pink darkening to Rose Doree on margins, heavy blotch
of Carmine dots on upper lobes (Ridgway); late flowering.
'Waltz Time'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under number:
255-49-13
Kagetsu X Warai Gishi; evergreen; growth
low, slow, forming a plant broader than tall and notable in that the white
that appears in the center of the flowers may be slow to appear, usually
not dependable till the plant is mature; flowers
late, double, 2 3/4 to 3 inches diameter, petals and narrow and rather
irregular, giving a loose appearance, 16 to 20 petals, close to Old Rose
(towards Venetian Pink) (Ridgway).
'White Jade'
Ben Morrison grew this plant under number:
288-49-1
Helen Gunning X Rei Ro; evergreen;
four feet after 10 years flowers single, 2 1/2
to 3 inches across, margins ruffled, white with pale green flush
on upper lobe; late mid-season.
Footnote: The above named varieties were registered
in 1964 and 1965 by Mr. B. Y. Morrison with the Royal Horticultural Society.
Compiled by:
Anita F. Fraser
Columbia Nursery
©Copyright 2000 by David Sauer