Flower fragrant, rotate to 4 inches (10½ cm) across. Petals obovate, obtuse to truncate, dark vermilion. Throat-circle conspicuously white. Filaments deep red; outer stamens in a wide ring,. Stem semicolumnar, to 3 inches (7½ cm) in diameter; central spines to 1 inch (24 mm) long. ‘Hana Lei’—after the town in Kauai—means a “garland of flowers” in Hawaiian. ISI 2001-59; HBG 85607, Schick 1266-62.
