Description
Koshino Maboroshi is a lovely new form with a single outer whorl in the flower. This is composed of six very broad, rounded, overlapping white petals which are subtly infused with very pale pink, just on the outermost edges. In the very centre of the flower the styles and some of the stamens are transformed into a dense, woven whorl of tiny green petals.
In more mature flowers this inner whorl may be more like a tuft and it may be totally green or the green can be edged in pink (this is an age effect). In younger flowers some of the anthers may still be present and these, if present, are pink, picking up the faint outlining on the petals.
A lovely creation of simple, but intricate beauty. Koshino is a ‘waist’, Maboroshi is an ‘illusion’ or ‘apparition’, but I do not know if the translation when the terms are combined is a valid one.
