Gordon Coombes
Geraldine, New Zealand
Gordon CoombesFl. forming a double triangle, 85mm wide; perianth segments 30mm long, very broadly ovate, blunt, clear lemon yellow, with small white mucro, spreading, a little concave, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, a little inflexed; corona 20mm long, split to more than half its length, the six segments each closely overlying a perianth segments, forming an outer and an inner whorl of three and almost as broad as the inner segments, bi-lobed, with lobes split and overlapping, regularly ribbed, a slightly deeper shade than the perianth segments, a little wavy. Strongly scented.
Cinnamon Girl, 11a Y-Y, Gordon Coombes, New Zealand, 2011
Photo #47778 Colin Crotty, New Zealand