Description horticole : Un grand Ger. dressé de près de 1m de haut et de diametre. Au dessus d’un beau feuillage jaune-vert, se dresse des tiges tachetées de brun qui portent des fleurs poupre foncées avec un centre blanc-argenté de mi-mai à mi-juin. Il a été présenté en 2004 par Robin Moss au RHS trial à Wisley (UK). Il a été trouvé par Marie Addeyman dans le jardin de sa soeur. Description botanique : RHS Trial 2006: A strange and dramatic plant with purple-black flowers on upright stems. An eye-catching presence in the border. Upright perennial, to 110 x90cm in trial. Basal leaf blades to 100 x 180mm, borne on long petioles to c45cm, unblotched, with short, white, eglandular hairs, sparse on the underside except along the veins, rectangular in outline, divided to about two thirds into 7 or 9; divisions overlapping in top half; rhomboid, lobed to about half way; lobes rounded- riangular, tip acute with occasional teeth. Stem leaves solitary becoming paired in the inflorescence, upper leaves with very narrow, acute lobes. Stems with short, glandular and long, patent eglandular hairs. Inflorescence diffuse, inclined to one side, flowers upward pointed. Sepals narrowoblong with a fringe of long hairs; mucro absent or minute. Flowers to 25mm across, dark purple (79A/B) with a silvery white eye. Petals level to slightly reflexed, broad obovate, lightly frilled to obscurely notched at the apex. |