Gordon Coombes
Geraldine, New Zealand
Gordon CoombesFl. 100mm wide; perianth segments 36mm long, roundish, very broad, blunt or truncate, scarcely mucronate, white, spreading, plane or with margins incurved, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half or more; the inner segments narrower, shouldered at base; corona 20mm long, split almost to base into six segments, each almost as wide as and closely overlying a perianth segment, forming an outer and an inner whorl of three, two to three lobed, heavily frilled, deep apricot pink, becoming orange-pink towards rim.
Strongly scented.
Desert Fire, 11a W-P, Gordon Coombes, New Zealand, 2019
Photo #58598 Gordon Coombes, New Zealand