‘Watereri’ 
‘Waterer’s Orange’ 
“Watti’ 
(John Waterer Sons & Crisp Ltd., Bagshot, Surrey, England. Catalog, p. 
79. 1938-39) : Young shoots and leaves tinted bronze, maturing green; 
fruit bright red; raised at Bagshot Nursery. Journal of the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society 81(2):109. 1956, as P. ‘Watereri’ : Compact growth, stout 
branches closely set with lateral branchlets; leaves dark green, narrow; 
fruit small, Capsicum Red 715 (HCC) in dense clusters; RHS Award of 
Merit, October 18, 1955. G. Kriissmann. Handbuch der Laubgehdlze, 2d 
ed., vol. 3, p. 69. 1978 : 2.5 m high and 2.5 m wide; leaves elliptic to 
lanceolate, 2.0-3.5 cm long, 6-12 mm wide, acute, apical third finely 
crenate; fruit flat, globose, orange. Letters March 1, 1960 and March 15, 
1960, G.H. Pinckney, John Waterer Sons & Crisp : Originated from cross 
of P. ‘Lalandei’ < P. crenulata made in 1934 and selected in 1939 by 
John Waterer Sons & Crisp. D.R. Egolf and R.F. Drechsler. Baileya 
15(2):87. 1967 : Chromosome number 2n=34. 
Misspelled as ‘Wateri’, ‘Waterii’, ‘Waterri’, “‘Watteri’ 
Red 33A, RHS 
(Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 77(11):cxvi. 1952, without 
description). John Waterer Sons & Crisp Ltd., Bagshot, Surrey, England. 
Catalog, p. 46. 1954-55 : Fruit orange yellow. Journal of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society 85(1):39. 1960, as P. ‘Waterer’s Orange’ : Leaves oblan- 
ceolate, crenate, dark green, 2 inches long and 3/4 inch wide; fruit glossy, 
somewhat flattened, globose, Tangerine Orange 9-9/1 (HCC), free fruiting; 
raised from seed of P. rogersiana; RHS Award of Merit, September 15, 
1959. Letter March 15, 1960, G.H. Pinckney, John Waterer Sons & Crisp : 
Originated as an F, seedling of P. ‘Watereri’; selected by John Waterer 
Sons & Crisp; named in 1948. 
P. rogersiana 
Yellow Orange 23A, RHS 
(Select Nurseries, Brea, California. Catalog, p. 46. 1964, as P. coccinea 
‘Watti’) : Fruit orange. 
= ? ‘Wyatti’ 
