Cultivar Name: Spice Melange
Seedling Number: TSMFPR79
Bloom Diameter: 7"
Scape Height: 54"
Branches: 3
Bud Count: 21
Bloom Season: Early-mid
Rebloom: Yes
Color/Description: Pastel orange with dark cherry red eye and thin partial edge above green to gold to orange throat.
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Bloom Habit: Diurnal
Foliage: Dormant
Pod Parent: The Spice Must Flow
Pollen Parent: Pacific Rainbow
Year Bred: 2017
Rust Resistance: Unknown (bred after my rust resistance testing ended)
Fertile: Both ways
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Comments: Spice Melange is a seedling from The Spice Must Flow and is a stunning flower on tall scapes with a giant, robust plant. The flower has wide petals with a ruffled edge to the petals - an advancement toward wider petalled, fancy flowers above the parent, but with the same type of giant plant under the flowers. Flowering begins in the early-mid season and lasts for a long time, often showing rebloom in my garden, which further extends the length of flowering. The plant is very vigorous with fast increase and excellent fast recovery from division. As with all giant types, the scapes on a first year division will not show the full height of an established clump, but that is true of most daylilies. A mature clump is a sight to behold with the faint foliage, tall scapes and large, full-formed flowers.
The color is a peach/orange tone that can end the day as a pale cream-peach. The base pigment is lycopene, which contributes to the melon/peach tone of the flower. The eye is generally a deep garnet to ruby red, though some days it is a bright red. The throat starts out a deep olive green that goes to chartreuse to bright orange and bleeds into the burgundy eye. The deep olive throat tends to remain all day. The plant is fertile both ways and produces large, robust seedlings with tall scapes and wider petalled flowers, especially when crossed to other full-form types. I have also seen considerably more ruffled seedlings when crossed to ruffled types. Spice Melange opens the door to giant plants with full-formed, round and ruffled plants with heavy ruffling. Another beautiful giant from my program, and more evidence of the strength of The Spice Must Flow as a parent. Below are multiple images of both the flowers and the clump of Spice Melange.
