Section ii - Macroceras

Species from Japan, Korea, Manchuria and Far eastern Russia

  • Potsize - 1L

    Galadriel' is a form of E.x rubrum that is in essence more rubrum-y. The flowers are larger and more red, tending to lack the central yellow of the type. The Foliage is more robust and better ground cover as well. Altogether a fine variety, though why the name Galadriel was applied, she being the carrier of the white ring and usually portrayed in white is a bit of a mystery.

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  • Potsize - 1L

    (E. grandiflorum x E. pinnatum subsp colchicum). This variety is very much along the same lines as its cousin Sulphureum, but a little paler and possibly more refined and even more like a diminutive Totnes Turbo. There is a little more contrast in the flower with paler inner sepals and slight ruddy shading to the tip of each petal. Foliage in Winter tends more towards the pinnatum parent and is largely evergreen. It is later in to flower than Sulphureum, so much so that they barely overlap. It has been in cultivation from before 1934, but has never achieved the popularity of Sulphureum. The young leaves are brownish.

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