Kalmia latifolia f. fuscata 'Apfelrose'

Parentage
• Female: Olympic Wedding x Goodrich
• Male: Minuet

Origin
• controlled cross

Hybridizer
• Dr. Karl-Heinz Hübbers
• named by Dr Karl-Heinz Hübbers

Size
• within 10 years: 3.3 ft x 3.6 ft

Habit
• broad upright, bushy

Flower
• Colour: white with a broad cinnamon band and small red spots inside the corolla; pedicel dark red
• Shape: the corolla is slightly upcurved when open with 5 distinct lobes
• Size: up to 180 flowers in the truss, 1.2 in

Bud
• dark translucent with pink tips

Foliage
• Shape: elliptic
• Colour: dark green, matt
• Size: 2.9 x 1.4 in

Shoot
• slightly reddish

Year of
• Crossing: 1994
• Naming: 2006
• Registration: 2010

Park
• Privat Garden Latchmin und Dr. Karl-Heinz Hübbers

Comments
• very vigorous, dark foliage; of no commercial value only used as crossing partner