Detail

A tall bulbous herbaceous perennial. Bulbs are 4.0-5.0 cm diam at first flowering, maturing to 7.0-8.0 cm, producing 1-2 offset bulbs annually. Leaves are strap-shaped, green, two to four per bulb, 55-65 cm long, 4.8-5.5 cm wide. Scapes are 50-60 cm tall, 2-3 per bulb, each bearing four flowers per scape with pedicels 4-6 cm long. The flowers are slightly fragrant. The spreading funnelform perianth is 14.5-16 cm long, laterally 15 cm and dorsoventrally 14 cm wide. The six tepals are of medium texture, and slightly recurved above the middle. The outer tepals are 10-12 cm long, and 5-7 cm wide at their broadest; the inner tepals are 9.5-11 cm long, the inner laterals 6-8 cm wide; the ventral inner ca. 6.5 cm wide. The tepals are striated marginally and diffusely with bright red on a white background, with RHSCC red 44B the closest. The upper three tepasl have the greatest density of striations; the lower three are predominately white. All tepals have a red picotee. The throat is green at the base of the tepals, extending up to the lower ¼ to 1/3 of each tepal. A short ring of fimbrae occurs at the throat. Stamens are 11 to 12 cm long, white for most of their length, green in the proximal 1.5 cm; pollen is yellow. The style is ca. 13 cm and colored similarly to the staminal filaments; the trifid stigma is ca. 6.5 mm wide.