Cransley Peach

Description

Registered Cultivar from Meg Hart traced back in her family to 1900-1910 period. Her mother-in-law's grandmother Mrs Ross (of the farm Riversdale in the Natal Midlands just outside of Howick) went on a picnic and found a clivia with a pink throat. This could have been in the Karkfloof area or in the foothills of the Drakensberg near Eastcourt at Thambamphlope (White Mountain).The plant was duly cultivated and as each daughter left home to get married they were given an offshoot of the peach clivia. This Clivia is late flowering with pale peach flowers becoming darker with age. The flowers are not large and there are only a few per umbel. They are similar in size and colour to 'Chubbs Peach'. This may be a group of plants as reference is made to various seedling colour and flower shape. John Winter crossed Cransley Peach with Group 2 Yellows and all seedlings were unpigmented.