This flower was first published online in 2012, by the Macao, China orchid friend Damo (I have grown this flower myself for 8 years, during which I saw it bloom 4 times; the flower's qualities are stable, and I feel it is a quite good white-flower variety. When I first bought it, the seller had written "Four Seasons White Rose" on the label, but after searching for many years, I have never seen any information about this flower online, and I do not know what variety it is), which shows that this flower already existed before 2004, though the exact year it was collected from the mountains is unclear! Shaoguan Suxian Lotus (currently more often called Danxia White Suxian Lotus), a medium-short leaf type, with petal shape opening and closing just right, very distinctive, with first-rate flower keeping, becoming more and more beautiful as it opens, with quite thick petals, somewhat on the creamy yellow-white side, a tongue that does not curl, and a harmonious flower-to-leaf ratio, exquisite and rare. The only shortcoming I feel is that the sepals are somewhat long and somewhat pointed; it would be better if they were shorter and rounder. A medium-short plant with swept and curled leaf tips, frosted leaf surface, a variety recognizable at a glance. The leaves are small, the flower diameter is 32MM, the flower color is creamy white, and the grade is very high. If I must name a flaw, it is that the flower stem is slightly thick. The flower color is not very white, but that kind of glutinous yellow-white, just like a lump of mutton fat, and the flower is also very regular; calling it a lotus immortal would be more apt. This variety is lazy about blooming!
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