'Polar Express'
Flowers single, in groups of four at tips of shoots, flowering shoots very densely crowded towards ends of branches; corolla
c. 9mm long, white, slightly curved, widening towards mouth; calyx segments unequal, with broad translucent margins and pale green mid-rib, lobes
c. 3mm long,
c. 1.5mm broad; anthers brown; style to 9mm long prominently emerging from corolla, style end green when fresh; nectar profuse; IV-VI; foliage deep green; linear leaves to 6mm long; habit compact bushy shrub to 0.9m tall, to 1m across in 3 years (not pruned).
Seedling 05-2-20 raised by K. Kramer in 2005, F2 seedling of self-pollinated '
Mr Robert'. Selected and named by David Edge in 2016 after cultivation in Forest Edge Nurseries. Hardier than other clones of
E. australis having survived a frost test as a seedling in Germany. Distinguished from 'Mr Robert' and 'Holehird White' by green style end.
® E.2016:07: registered on 21 December 2016 by David Edge, Forest Edge Nurseries, Wimborne, Dorset.
