Family : Rosaceae
Class : Hybrid Tea
Text and pictures © Giuseppe Mazza
English translation by Ignacio Barrionuevo
‘Starlite’ is a Hybrid Tea created at Antibes, France, by Alain Meilland in 1995.
Its lemon yellow-coloured flowers, topping erect stems, open slowly and last long, and the colour does not fade over time.
It is a variety born to feed the cut flower industry by bein cultivated in nurseries and, thus, scarcely present in gardens.
Variety denomination : MEItanet
Seme : ‘Golden Times’
Polline : Seedling × ‘Golden Garnette’
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