Description: Orange buds open to deep salmon and orange rather tubular flowers with brown spots with a large fleshy coloured calyx in a loose truss of 7 to 11. Flowers are waxy orange red with a dark speckling
Parentage: dichroanthum x elliottii
Ultimate Height: 1.80 meters after 10 years
Flowering Period: This plants flowers in the North Hemisphere around May
Hardy in a sheltered site in most UK, Coastal France and northern Italy and Pacific Northwest gardens, but may be damaged in severest winters. Often early into flower and growth. (Please note.)