Large purple-blue flowers with paler bar and pinky-white filaments and red anthers. Early flowers can sometimes be semi-double (first photograph). The variety has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Group:	Early large-flowered group
Approximate height:	2.0 - 4.0 metres
Flowering period(s):	Jun Jul Sep Oct
Aspect:	Any aspect
Pruning:	Light prune (Group 2)
Raised by:	Charles Noble
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Date raised:	rb 1873 ic1876
Parentage:	'Jackmanii' x C. patens seedling
Other name(s):	'President'; 'Président
Further detail:  Flower diameter: 13-20cm Tepals: 6-8; 6.5-8.5cm long, 3.5-4.5cm wide, ovate to elliptic, overlapping, long-pointed, margin slightly wavy Leaves: simple or ternate Database entry: 534
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	Charles Noble