Large, silvery, soft violet-blue flowers have small golden throats and yellow anthers with prominent, divided red-orange styles. In cultivation, they lend themselves to being unusually attractive in pots or on the show bench, when they make solid congested clumps, the flowers crowding together to form a solid mass. This plant is extremely rare, and indeed is protected in the wild. It was discovered in the Taurus Mountains of Southern Turkey in 1994, and the sole locality is a closely guarded secret. These precious seeds are related to the original find by Erich Pasche.
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