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LEMON CUPS--the outstanding scent of this variety is its most
noteworthy characteristic, standing out among the other varieties it is one that
customers at the farmers' markets always want me to include a few stems of in
their bunches. The tall, strong, well-ribbed stem also makes this an
excellent flower for cutting. January blooming here, it has 8-12 florets per stem, opening
white with a deep lemon cup, looking at first like a more slender form of
Avalanche, then the color becomes lighter with age so it more closely
resembles Grand Primo, but is definitely earlier blooming than either of these two
varieties. An excellent multiplier, and a healthy vigorous drought-resistant plant
that naturalizes well. Routinely found mixed in with bulbs of Omri imported
from Israel, it was possibly hybridized there as I detect some
characteristics in common with the wild form of N. tazetta whch is native there, including
the type of scent and the prominent ribbing of the stem.
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