Description
‘ Seraglio’
3Y/W-YYO
[Barrii 3a (should be 3b?)]
(The Brodie of Brodie, seedling 40/A/1917 [‘Mozart’ × ‘Gallipoli’])
This tall, striking, late flower of exceptionally strong substance bears almost round, white perianth segments, spun with gold on opening, and a large, regularly-pleated, shallow, glowing gold, bowl-shaped corona generously margined Indian orange. Fittingly, with ‘Mozart’ as its parent, the opera-loving Brodie is likely to have named this vigorous and floriferous plant after that composer’s singspiel Il Seraglio, rather than after exotic Ottoman living-quarters set aside for wives and concubines – presumably in sharp contrast to Moray’s pink-harled bastion of Brodie Castle!
