Characteristics and Appreciation of the Jianlan 'Fangzi' Variety

Produced in Sichuan, the color is moist and lustrous, the form is upright, comparable to 'Zhenmei'! A truly excellent good variety! The petals show obvious masculinization, a dragon-swallowing tongue, the three outer sepals with long feet and round tips, tightly edged and thick-fleshed, held upright and cupped, with a glutinous color; regrettably the shoulders gradually drop, but overall it counts as a rather good four-season plum-petal type. The leaves of this flower are slanted and upright, tall and straight; when the flower first opens the color is greenish-white, and after two days it gradually turns tender yellow, moist and lustrous, with slightly dropped shoulders. The flower diameter is 3.5-4.5CM, and both the bloom quality and the flower's staying power are quite good; every bloom opens exactly alike, and from opening to fading the center of the flower does not change in the least, making it a narcissus-petal line of very great charm.