Description
A dwarf plant with a 20 cm flower stem that can carry 12, white to rose flowers with a darker, almost magenta, base and tube. The petals are heavily crinkled and folded all along their length.
A superb little miniature species and one of our most popular. Although winter dormant, it is more accurately called ‘green dormant’ as it has leaves present in winter. These, like the plant, are miniature and are also very thin and grass like, not obtrusive in any way.
Pot growth under glass, where several bulbs will fit into a 10-12 cm pot of your favourite, well-drained, fertile, loam based compost.
The Botanical Code (2006), 60C(b) specifically cites the correct spelling of the epithet (honouring Mason, father and daughter together) as masoniorum.
