Principessa di Piombino

Medici Spada, 1858, Catalogo nel Giardino a Villa Quiete, p.7: Large flower, incomparable perfection - petals numerous, small, oblong with incurved margins, imbricated in a globe similar to a dahlia; the petals of the periphery are varied shades of soft rose, intermediate and central petals deeper colored. The recurving of the petals shows the darker underside and the apices have off-white blotches. Originated at the Villa Ludovisi, Rome. Orthographic variant: ‘Princesse di Piombino’.