Description
One of our newest Japanese introductions this has good-sized, very “open” flowers with quite broad, nicely overlapping, orange petals. The yellow anthers are borne on orange filaments. This is very floriferous and once this is established, the blooms are produced in abundance very early in the spring. A very attractive cultivar, for a damp, humus-rich, well-drained, lightly shaded spot.
This is a selected, clonal hybrid with (like the majority of cultivated Adonis hybrids) a bloodline involving multiflora and ramosa. They are often referred to as amurensis but are more correctly “amurensis of Horticulture”
Another sumptuous orange flowered Adonis of the most wonderful colouring. Raised by a Japanese hobbyist as a seedling from Chichibubeni. This has improved colour and this colour itself is much more fade-resistant, especially if it is grown in slight shade and certainly out of direct sunlight, which bleaches and fades intensity of the orange shades (this applies in ALL of the orange-shaded Adonis forms). It also seems to me that with increasing maturity, the shade in this flower actually deepens, rather than fades. We think that ‘Akebono‘ is the Japanese word for ‘Dawn’ or perhaps the colour of the sky at dawn.
Added to our lists in November 2022
