112 mm wide, round-shaped flower; perianth in 6 or more whorls. Regularly and tightly arranged, very broad, shallowly truncate and more or less prominently mucronate, milk white, smooth, deeply overlapping; the outer whorl spreading or slightly inflexed, plane or a little concave, with margins somewhat wavy; the inner whorls successively more strongly inflexed, more deeply concave and shorter, with margins in-curled; the whorl at center erect and very short; corona segments interspersed among the petaloid segments at center and shorter than all of them, deep reddish orange
Named for its slight resemblance to a cabbage (Latin word for cabbage is Brassica)
Brassicala, 4 W-O, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 2009
Photo #43677 Brian S. Duncan, Northern IrelandBrassicala, 4 W-O, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 2009
Photo #41728 Brian S. Duncan, Northern IrelandBrassicala, 4 W-O, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 2009
Photo #41727 Brian S. Duncan, Northern IrelandBrassicala, 4 W-O, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 2009
Photo #41726 Brian S. Duncan, Northern IrelandBrassicala, 4 W-O, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 2009
Photo #41362 Kirby Fong, USA