Description
(Musa Shino)
This fabulous form has multiple, tightly packed whorls of narrow, curved petals overlapped in a fully doubled flower. The petals are ribbed and the tips are each lightly notched and clawed. The outsermost of the whorls is tipped and stained with green. Towards the centre of the flower, there are further rings of petals, each of which has a diffuse, green stripe, or green external markings on the exterior, this contrasts perfectly with the rich yellow. In the very centre of the flower the packed, youngest petals are once again chrome yellow though they are developing and so they display the green on the outside a lot more . A very distinctive and beautiful new clone.
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
