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Amaryllis/Hippeastrum

Looking for a good Orange Large Flowering Variety

16 years ago

I just finished talking to my bestfriend in CA. And my ears hurt! LOL! Anyway, I am going to send her an amaryllis...her very first one. She wants an orange, large flowering variety. We both have the same favorite color. An 'orange-orange' one, not orange-red or salmon-orange. I immediately said 'Ok...you got one". Now as I think about my collection's orange flowering ones, only Supreme Garden is real orange and has small flowers. Orange Sovereign although a very good provider has more like red-orange flowers. Solomon is salmon-orange.

I am thinking about getting Charmeur. Is it really orange? Performance?

Come to think of it, there's not much 'orange-orange' flowering varieties.

Any suggestions?

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soultan
16 years ago
Gold Medal is brick-orange, and you cannot really fail with Orange Souvereign. That is just stunning deep orange. Desire is also orange, just a little pale kind. Rilona is an even more pale orange, almost creamy-brown.
These are the varieties that are full orange, not striped, started, hearted, anything. Full orange color.

Here is a pic of my Gold Medal:

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haweha
16 years ago
"Salmon" carries, imho, the mostly-true Orange!
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greenguy1
16 years ago
I love 'Rilona,' even though, as Soultan says, it is paler. But, it's highly reliable, the color is a quite saturated creamy orange and I almost always get 6 flowers on the first couple of scapes. Last year it put up 3, with 6, 6 and 5 flowers, and its offset (still attached in the same pot) bloomed for the first time and had one scape with 5 flowers. It does get tall - scapes have been 30" or more consistently over the last 5 years - but stands up quite well; you'll note that it's the only one not staked in the photo. A very impressive cultivar, IMHO.

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mariava7
Original Author
16 years ago
Soultan...I am thinking about Gold Medal too. I will have to order this from VB Wholesale and will come in 3s. If ever, 1 for my friend, one for me, and an extra one.

How about Charmeur? Veronica Read describes it as having 4-6 flowers/scape.

Orange Sovereign is very vigorous. It is a big plant with huge rounded and kinda 'textured' flowers. But it is red-orange for me unless I got a mislabeled one. Here is my pic of it...

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Sir Hans....Ohhhh I love that salmon orange color and deeper colored eye. And look at that flower shape...Just lovely. It that it's name? Salmon? Or were you refering to it's salmon color?
jodik_gw
16 years ago
Beautiful oranges! "Salmon" has such a nice sheen to it! They are all nice, though.
mariava7
Original Author
16 years ago
I know Jodic. Now it's getting harder and harder to choose and my wish list is getting longer!

Greenguy...What lovely combination! So peaceful...
soultan
16 years ago
Charmeur is orange but doesn't it have a white star heart?
mariava7
Original Author
16 years ago
Veronica Read describes it as having usually 6 orange and white long lasting flowers. The pic in VBwholesale shows a bright orange flowr with white star. Anybody has a pic of Charmeur?
soultan
16 years ago
Yes. I saved a pic of it from the web. I will send it to you in private. It is orange, but not full orange, if the picture is right.

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