Description
Huge deep wine-red flowers with chrome yellow (not blue) anthers and heavily patterned leaves. This is the largest of the Old World species and rivals some of the USA species for their title of biggest in the genus. It is a very distinctive species from China and Russian Siberia, and its name gives away the fact that it really does like it cold.
Cool, humid, light shade in a cold spot planted in a humus rich soil. This is not one to be coddled in a pot, as a cold winter rest is essential to break dormancy, grow this one too warm and it will miss a year above ground!
