This is a shot I took at Curt's last week. This flower was my pick of the entire garden. It was a seedling, in the "selected" bed. It was a clump, but I could not see the cross tag, so I can't tell you what the cross was. I took quite a few photos of all the different flowers on it. The petals curl back on themselves so that from the side, you see the top of the petals. On this flower, the sepals did not recurve - which is not ideal -- I'd rather see them open more. If you look at the petal tips - they are recurved, indicating that this flower IS fully open.
This is a fully pleated flower. Some of us would call this the "tulip" form - but we need to come up with a different name for that form.
No, this is not the most beautiful thing. And, it is a little splotchy on top of it. BUT --- why it excites me is that this is the very edge of pushing the envelope of form. Who knows what unique and different forms this will lead to? By crossing these fully pleated flowers to the very large thin spidery forms, perhaps we will create daylilies that will have two planes or levels of petal? We do not know where in the world these strange and captivating forms will lead us.
I encourage you to look at the photo enlarged.
