Perianth segments very broadly ovate, rounded at apex, prominently mucronate, creamy yellow, spreading, somewhat concave, overlapping half or more; the inner segments square-shouldered at base, sometimes distorted or curled at shoulder; corona split to base, the six segments half as long as the perianth segments and alternate to them, ovate, sometimes truncate or bi-lobed, ribbed, orange at base and in a tapering band at midrib, the orange paling to yellow in the upper half and flanked by broad patches of creamy yellow, spreading, with margins wavy and tightly incurled.
Burning Heart, 11b Y-O/Y, J.W.A. Lefeber, the Netherlands, 1958
Photo #56732 Janet Hickman, USABurning Heart, 11b Y-O/Y, J.W.A. Lefeber, the Netherlands, 1958
Photo #51373 Heath Family Archives, USA