Description
(Hino Tori)
The is the most delicious shade of soft tangerine-orange with 14-18 orange petals pencil-lined with a slightly darker shade of the same colour. The very centre of the flower is subtly paler, so slight that you would almost not notice, were it not for the fact that this perfectly contrasts the dark orange filaments, which in turn hold small, golden yellow anthers. A rounded green boss sits in the very centre. A really gorgeous plant and a personal favourite, as you might have guessed.
Gardening practice is to call all Japanese cultivars amurensis though it is more correctly “amurensis of Horticulture”.
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