Description
This has strongly mottled and bronzed foliage, slightly crisped on the margins. The petals are white to cream (rarely very pale yellow) with a deep yellow or orange throat and small median and lateral auricles at the base of each petal.
A rare and restricted inhabitant of the Siskiyou Mountains of northern California and southern Oregon. This is excellent in cultivation where it makes an abundance of good-sized, beautifully scented blooms, although underground increase is rare here and seed growth is slow. These took 7 years, from seed, from May 2016, to reach their first flowering in 2023.
The real species (for there are imposters) will never be cheap, nor plentiful I fear, which is a shame as it is one of the best of the species.
