Tunis

Description

Tunis bears 115 mm flowers with ivory- to milk-white perianth segments and a crown that opens lemon, then fades to matching white apart from a pale coppery-gold edge frill. Its broadly ovate, overlapping segments are blunt and slightly inflexed, while the cylindrical corona has an expanded, lightly frilled mouth and an irregularly notched, crenate, pale amber-yellow rim. Mid-season flowers develop great substance and last well; exceptionally stiff stems and foliage withstand rough weather. In drier soils and sunnier districts, it can grow with immense vigor where conditions suit it.