Sun Valley Group: New Roselily Varieties
July 20, 2016 | 1 min to read
The Roselily is a gorgeous freak of nature. Its spontaneous mutation (lush, multi-layered petals) was discovered by the De Looff Brothers in the early 2000s. Over the next decade they worked with this mutation in their breeding program to bring forth the earliest Roselily varieties, Belonica and Fabiola.
These first flagship varieties—Belonica and Fabiola—took the floral world by storm. Roselilies were new, complex, and singular; they also boasted other positive attributes like long vase life, no pollen, and a sweet, pleasing fragrance.
However, because the initial Roselily varieties were the very first-of-their-kind, they had some issues (weak laterals, bud breakage) which the team at De Looff Lily Innovation succeeded in overcoming with new and improved Roselily breeds such as the speckled maroon Thalita, the elegantly white Carolina, the soft Natalia, and electric-pink Elena.
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