Granta

Anonymous, Jun.1839, Revue Horticole, p.205-207. Berlèse, 1843, Iconographie, p. facing pl.204: The flower is full, in a rosette, 9-10 cm across, sometimes larger; the colour is pale red, somewhat near the shades of Variegata. The petals of the circumference in 4 or 5 rows, are round-ovate, surface wrinkled, notched, reflexed, but in the middle the formation is a reflexed shell shape, imbricated without regularity, and extra deep at the petal heft. Those following are small, long petals, almost upright, curled and dentate, twisted and united in a spherical mass, sometimes with lines and bands of red. The corolla is now peony form, now entirely imbricated and regular. Orthographic errors: ‘Granto’, ‘Granti’.