Description
This has large (reputedly the largest in the genus) flowers of soft raspberry pink with hair-like, mulberry lines running their length and a large purple blotch on the nose. The foliage is rounded and glaucous blue-green.
Best grown in a frame or a pot if that suits you as it is early flowering, but we have grown this outside in a well-drained, loam-based compost in a sunny raised bed.
Long known but rarely seen in cultivation and slowly becoming more widespread, for its obvious appeal. Increase is not as regular as some species such as C. solida but it does make offsets just not every year.
