Description
Many years ago, this species was known only as a few cherished (and often not very healthy) specimens in the hands of a few collectors. It was a small gene pool which seemed to seldom set seed. Then Manfred Koenen, then from the Bonn Botanic Gardens, managed to visit Libya and introduce new genetic material. With this new input, the species became both obtainable and growable!
Large, pale-pink, highly-scented flowers with a purple-magenta zone at the base of the petals, over superb, angular, silver-splashed leaves. Flowering from July to Sept.
Too tender to be grown outside but a superb alpine house plant.
Raised from seed of seedlings of MK.0179 Libya, Cyrenaica, 450m altitude, 1979 most likely in the Jabal al Akhdar region
for UK sales ONLY NOT available for export
