China
Crown form. Flowers 16cm x 7cm, light red
faintly purple (73-B); the outer petals 2-3-whorled, flat, entire and
regular,suffused with purplish red at the base; the inner petals small, wrinkled,
crowded, regular, some petaloid
filaments bearing anthers are present, a few stamens grow among the petals;
pistils small or petaloid.
Stalks long, stiff, flowers upright or lateral. Flowering early. Plant medium
to dwarf,
partially spreading. Branches fairly slender, stiff. Leaves orbicular, large-sized,
crowded;
leaflets ovate, thick, soft, slightly pendulous, apex acute. Growth medium;
flowers many, neatform.
Available
in 5 and 15 gallon containers.
