Description
(Kin Shi)
(golden hawk)
This is a rare but brilliant, golden-yellow, double flowered form with an abundance of beautifully serrated, bright golden-yellow petals, the undersides of which have slender, purple stripes. The anthers and the filaments which hold them are the same, glorious, golden-yellow also. This cultivar is hardly ever seen and stocks will probably always be limited.
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
