Flower sweetly fragrant, to 5½ inches (14 cm) across. Petals broad obovate, obtuse or truncate, often strongly recurved even at relatively low temperatures, inners pastel rust-orange with narrow yellow to orangish-yellow basal stripe and yellow midrib. Outer petals acute, light yellow to orange. Throat-circle light yellow. Filaments of outer stamens yellow, those of inner stamens dark terra cotta. Stem globular, to 3¾ inches (9½ cm) in diameter; central spines to 1 inch (25 mm) long. ISI 2000-11; HBG 85233, Schick 1356-17.
