Palazzo Borghese

Medici Spada, 1857, Della Nuova che si vengono ottenendo dalle Semine Romane, p.13: Bright, deep vermilion, broad-ovate outer petals, regularly arranged; central petals small and numerous, symetrically clustered in a noticeably hemispherical group. Mer­catelli Catalogue, 1881, p.31: Splendid rose, tinted darker. Intermediate and central petals pale rose, streaked with rosy white. Reverse of petals at tips lined with white, petals of circumfer­ence flat, the others slighty raised in a cup form. Perfectly imbricated. Originated in Italy by Conte di Medici Spada at Giardino Borghese, Rome.