Wandering Pisté’s backstreets, next to a humble, thatch-roofed hut and bending over a half-collapsed stone wall there was a bushy, five-ft-tall (1.5m) herbaceous plant with the spectacular blossom shown above.

That blossom is about seven inches long (18 cm). It’s a double-blossomed cultivar. A close-up showing better how the inner and outer corollas relate is shown below:

Wandering Pisté’s backstreets, next to a humble, thatch-roofed hut and bending over a half-collapsed stone wall there was a bushy, five-ft-tall (1.5m) herbaceous plant with the spectacular blossom shown above.

That blossom is about seven inches long (18 cm). It’s a double-blossomed cultivar. A close-up showing better how the inner and outer corollas relate is shown below: