Rick, I'd say the flowers run about 85% of normal and the height is about 10-12 inches shorter. The flowers never get to fully open being so crowded. A couple years when it was cooler and cloudier all the buds opened forming a perfect dome. The main bulb itself never gets larger than a large orange. Probably because it spends so much energy dividing. The last 2 years the buds in the very center were burned by the hot sun before they fully developed.
Moby, I knew you were building a library on Faciation, so this is good info and I'd be glad to answer any questions you have as well as try anything along the way here for experiment, etc.
Anthony, I read somewhere your Mother or Grandmother had many Regals when you were a young boy--did you ever see anything like this one? I still haven't solved the ant problem on Regal types. I tried a slurry of Terro ant powder+water on a couple but I got worried I'd be introducing a toxin into the plant so I stopped right there.
