Greenish, straw-coloured flowers with wine-red veins, bar and margin; possibly deep carmine red at first. Pale yellow anthers.
Group: Early large-flowered group
Flowering period(s): May Jun
Raised by: D Spaƫ
Country of origin: Belgium
Date raised: rb1860 i1862
Parentage: 'Helena' x unknown
Other name(s): azurea violacea; patens var violacea; patens 'Violacea';
Further detail:
Tepals: 8; lanceolate
Leaves: ternate