Description
‘Prince Fushimi’
2W-WYO
[Giant Incomparabilis 2b]
(Welchman, W., pre-1908)
A flower of individual character with clean white perianth segments, stained straw-yellow at the base, of various shapes: the outer segments from nearly round to very broadly oblong-obovate and conspicuously mucronate; the inner segments less well formed, narrower, broad elliptic to broadly obovate; most margins becoming recurved, strongly so in the basal third, and most segments incurving at maturity. “The Prince”’s crowning glory is, literally, the deeply pleated wide bowl of soft chrome-yellow, the upper half shaded, on opening, nasturtium/reddish orange, which, in places, extends along the ridges to the scalloped and gently ruffled margin. As the flower matures, the orange shading becomes a narrower zone of softer peachy salmon-orange before fading to orange-buff, and the rest of the corona turns primrose. Flowering late mid-season; slightly taller than average height. Presumably named in honour of the military leader, Prince Fushimi Sadanaru, a scion of the Imperial family of Japan, who visited the Guildhall in London in 1907.