Development and Characterisation of a New Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. Cultivar (‘Krishna's Radiance’) from India

Abstract

A new significant cultivar Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. cv. ‘Krishna's Radiance’ has been developed from the cross pollination of H. rosa-sinensis L. cv. ‘Houdini’ (Female pod parent) and Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. cv. ‘HVH Rain Drop’ (Male pollen parent). The new cultivar characterised by upright, fast growing shrubs with bluish-purple flowers. It can be recognised from parents by its large, creamy-white eye zone and allied to male parent (HVH Rain Drop) by its bluish colour flower but it can be separated by large single regular flower, clockwise arrangement of petals and creamy-white large eye zone whereas male parent has small single cartwheel flower, anticlockwise arrangement of petals and small whitish-pink eye zone.