FAIRY SUMMERBIRD (King-Lamone 1999)
This is an excellent example of a form that I
have been working on called "the Butterful Crispata", a name coined
by Rosemary Whitacre. This form is a combination of spatulate petals, sepals
quilled at the base of the segment and a flat face. This form is very orchid-like
in impression in a garden setting with Hedychium, Yuccas, Fatsia, Miscanthus,
etc. It's delicate form looks best in a setting of solid-lined (rather than
compound) leaf forms.
Ca. 27in, EMid, 2 - 3 way branching, ca. 20 buds,
Noct, DOR. Pale lavender and lilac bitone with chartreuse to green throat,
turing yellow to chartreuse in heat. A superb example of the Butterfly Crispatation
Pattern.This seedling out of my numerous "Gollast" crosses gave
me the multiple branching and extreme spatulate petals of GOLLIWOG and a
muted lilac colour influenced by ASTERISK. From both parents it gets a nocturnally-opening
blooming habit and high pod fertility.
A second shot of this near-perfect BUTTERFLY FORM.
Note: in cooler weather, the throat colour is very green, in our heat and
hot sun, the throat colour turns chartreuse to yellow. The colour are also
richer in cooler weather.