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.
