Description
The superb Chinese plant, nicely illustrated in the Alpine Garden Society Bulletin, 1994, page 219.(Our plants are from the same stock which is a 1980s, SBEC introduction) This is a superb dwarf plant with 20-30 cm stems crowned with a whorl of green leaves, inside of which is a whorl of lemon yellow bracts, a whorl of golden anthers and a whorl of something whiskery, all around a white-tipped ovary (the alba bit in the name). A very lovely form rarely offered, but much sought after, since its discovery above Dali in Yunnan.
True plants, divisions grown in this country from the original SBEC introduction in the 1980s, not fresh Chinese imports.
Nice shaded, peaty soil with reasonable drainage but not too dry. NO, don’t pot it first for a year, this will set it back – get it out in the garden!
