This distinctive color is a clear, lively rose mauve coloration, dominated by an eye of red burgundy leading to a gold throat with a darker green heart. The petals are lightly ruffled and pinched with hooks, bubbles, and teeth, and picoteed in the same dark red. The form is round and slightly recurved. Fertile both ways. Opens well after cool nights.
Substance is excellent and holds well in the sun.
This was one of three cultivars that received a Junior Citation as a seedling, thus the 1998 registration even though it was only in its second year. If I had it to do over, I would refuse the J.C.s to be able to register the cultivar the year of introduction.