Description
Galanthus Lavinia is a superb Greatorex double clone that deserves to be better known. It makes a tallish plant (shorter after transplanting of course) with fully doubled, even and symmetrical flowers in which the outer segments (which sometimes show a tiny yellow-green mark at the tip) are evenly spaced around the inner frill. It makes good growth and a nice increase plus it flowers dependably each year.
It is looser than the related ‘Cordelia‘ but shows the same pattern around the large green mark on the inner petals, where the outer edges of the green mark stain into the white base of the petal, but the centre does not and is more sharply defined and narrower.
The “Snowdrop Bible” records that the outer segments of the inner whorl, curl about themselves, thus revealing the segments below them. The authors consider this unique to this clone.
We assume that the clone is named for the mother of A.H. Greatorex, Mariane Lavinia and it was named by Greatorex himself prior to 1948.
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