My friend Marlee Price brought the diploid SUNGLASSES NEEDED to me several years ago after it was chosen as the “Best in Show” in Savannah, Georgia.  Marlee thought that this diploid might help me in my hybridizing program if I could get it converted.  I was able to get it converted and it produced OPA KLAUS.  The name OPA KLAUS was given by my friend, Marcia Zech, from Mercer Island, Washington.  Marcia earned the privilege of choosing the name by winning the right at the 2015 AHS National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.  OPA KLAUS means grandfather in German.  Pod and Pollen fertile, but a more difficult pod parent.