Description
This has nicely patterned leaves which are well marked with broad zones and splashes of silvery green over a much darker ground.
The flowers in asaroides generally are a good size and are squat and plump in relation to many species. In this clone the flower is especially short, squat and dumpy and it sits at ground level looking right up at you. The petals are yellowish-green at the edges but they are progressively infused, more and more, with ruby-red towards the centre of the flower, in a gradient of colour.
The depths of the throat tube are a very deep, red-purple whilst the entrance is very sharply defined by a series of raised, warty, white folds. The contrast with the petals is very sharply delineated rather than any gradual merging into them. Again, our pictures show these finer points which combine to make very different appearances in all of our A. asaroides clones.
New to our lists in January 2020