Description
(Haku hou, Haku Ho, Hakuho)
This is a cream-yellow, round petalled variety considered one of the best of the ‘white’ flower forms, though in truth all of the ‘white” flowered forms are a pale yellow of differing intensity variety. The petals are broad and wider toward the tips and they overlap considerably to give a continuous disc. The filaments are very short, which accentuates the length of the petals, as the anthers sit in a small, tight ring around the central boss. Rarely offered.
Gardening practice is to call all Japanese cultivars amurensis though it is more correctly “amurensis of Horticulture”. Very few of the clones are amurensis proper, most are selected, clonal hybrids involving multiflora and ramosa. In the case of Hakuhou it appears that this may be a selected clone of pure ramosa. They are all very early-flowering plants for a damp, humus-rich but well-drained, lightly-shaded spot. Adonis seem to resent transplanting even more than most other Ranunculaceae, a family notorious for their dislike of being moved. Please be patient with them (and with us) as this is down to evolution, not the nurseryman.
Introduced to our lists September 2021
