Description
We grow two forms to which this name can be applied. One is a horticultural form of unknown origins in which the purple pigments are lacking allowing the buff exterior of the flowers to show through over a white ground.
The strain preserves the white anthers of the typical plant as well as the lovely honey scent which is evident on warm still days outside, or if you have the plant in a pot under glass in the alpine house. A wonderful plant which, sadly, we do not have available more than once every blue moon as it is not the most vigorous and it seems to do badly once in a while, setting the whole stock back by years!
Our second form is more vigorous and does well, it has white flowers with some fine purple feathering on the exterior. The came originally as seed from near Selakano in Crete.
