
'Percy Viosca' - O'Connor, P. 2016 32"-34" E-M Standards pale yellow-orange, several green lines in middle extending about half the distance from base to tip of petal; style arms green at base changing to pale yellow-orange at ²⁄₃ their length, light orange tips; Falls bright orange, signal yellow-orange thumbprint with green spear extending through and slightly beyond; lightly ruffled. Storyville X Lemon Zest
From hybridizer Patrick O'Connor: Percy Viosca. Named for a contemporary of John K. Small, trained as a herpetologist who worked for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries beginning in 1920 and who became an expert on plant life in SE Louisiana. He wrote an article in 1935 that debunked Small’s claim of nearly 100 species near New Orleans, asserting that there were only four..