‘Colorado Red’ 
‘Compacta’ 
‘Compacta’ 
‘Coolidgei’ 
‘Coplen’s Royal’ 
(Select Nurseries, Brea, California. Catalog, p. 54. 1974) : Vigorous 
growth; leaves shiny; fruit bright red; hardy. Name registered by F.C. 
Tomlinson, Select Nurseries, April 15, 1974 : Chance seedling, parent- 
age unknown; selected by Wayne Smith, Alvin, Texas, in 1967; named 
by W.M. Tomlinson, Select Nurseries, in 1970, and introduced in 1972 
as ‘Texas Red’; flowers profusely; fruit dark red, in abundance. Letter 
April 22, 1974, F.C. Tomlinson: Name changed to ‘Colorado Red’ for 
customer acceptance. 
= ‘Texas Red’ 
(H. Tomin. Mdller’s Deutsche Gartner-Zeitung 52(33):387. 1937, as P. 
gibbsii var. compacta) : Compact, thick growth habit, horizontally 
spreading branches; leaves dark green above, gray green beneath, 
evergreen; flowers white, abundant; fruit coral red, abundant, smaller 
than parent species, persistent. Originated at Prinaer Nursery, Ger- 
many, in 1919, by crossing P. gibbsii x P. coccinea; introduced by same 
firm. Letter December 6, 1965, Kayser & Seibert, Rossdorf bei 
Darmstadt, Germany : Plant 1.25 m high and 1.75 m broad; flower 
umbels 4-5 cm in breadth, with 12-15 single flowers; fruit 4-5 mm 
thick, color carmine red beginning in October. 
P. atalantioides 
Orange Red 32A, RHS 
(Deerfield Nurseries, Deerfield, New Jersey. Catalog, p. 2. 1954-55, as P. 
coccinea ‘Compacta’) : Dwarf; fruit orange. 
(Coolidge Rare Plant Gardens, East Pasadena, California. Catalog, p. 3. 
July 1948, as P. formosana ‘Coolidgei’) : Fruit red. Probably no longer in 
cultivation. 
P. koidzumii 
[Plant material received at U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, DC, in 
1959 from Rockville Nursery, Rockville, Maryland, with this designa- 
tion.] No additional information available. 
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