Large, bowl-shaped becoming flatter, silvery-lavender flowers with darker edges and bar fading to white (first photograph). In warm conditions, or with late summer flowers, much whiter (second photograph). Yellow anthers, tan-gold connectives, creamy yellow filaments. Raised by Brewster Rogerson from seed sent to him by K?z? Sugimoto in Japan who had hybridised it.

Group: Early large-flowered group
Approximate height: 2.0 - 2.5 metres
Flowering period(s): May Jun Sep Oct
Pruning: Light prune (Group 2)
Raised by: Brewster Rogerson
Country of origin: USA
Date raised: h1997 rn1998 i2007
Parentage: patens (self-pollinated)
Other name(s): None known

Further detail:

Flower diameter: 14-18cm
Tepals: 6-8; 7cm long, 4.5cm wide, blunt
Leaves: ternate

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Brewster Rogerson