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A dark flowered cultivar that I tried because it was cheap at the end of the season (in the run up to Christmas).
It has proved itself to be a good thing, apearing reliably in spring. After five years the flower number is starting to decline
but I am hoping that it will settle down to producing a few flowers each season. My hypothesis is that modern breeding is,
either deliberately or inadvertantly, selecting more reliably perennial forms. That is to say that after flowering the do not split into dozens of tiny bulbs
but instead split into a couple of large bulbs. This would give a beter performance in the commercial field, where salebale bulbs could be harvested every year. The KAVB say it was registered by Jan S. Pennings in 2011. The description says: "Summary colour: brown-purple N77A and dark purple-red 187B. Inside: bottom inner bl.bl. black. Inner bl.bl. brown-purple N77A/187A. Anthers black. Pollen purple or black. Outside: base yellow 3B. Outer bl.bl. darker than brown-purple N77A, transitioning to edge via dark purple-red 187B to darker than brown-purple N77A at edge. Inner bl.bl. darker than brownish-purple N77A/187A. Stem green. Leaf green, ovoid, edge little and coarsely wavy. Flower length approximately 8.5 cm. Not very strongly fringed and especially fringed at top bl.bl." |
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