Erlicheer

Description

Erlicheer bears 6–12 or more flowers per stem, each formed from four whorls of overlapping, broadly ovate, yellowish-white segments. The outer whorl has prominently pointed, slightly inflexed tips, while the inner whorls turn progressively farther inward and overlap more deeply. Short, very broad, brilliant greenish-yellow corona segments are regularly arranged between them and have wavy, unbroken rims. The strongly scented flowers bloom very early; Ron Hyde registered Erlicheer in 1951 after Alan Gibson’s proposed names ‘Cheerfulness’ and ‘Gaiety’ were rejected as already used.