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”, slight sweet fragrance, keeping quality good. Medium pink with a small brilliant yellow center and wide petals that highly overlap. Red bands on front and back. Good texture, grainy veins and are overlapped. A nice unique rose / nutmeg spicy fragrance. A good upright grower and good bloomer. Largest individual flowers, grows a little wide but is still a good grower. Grainy deep-pink, 3” with a knock-out sweet and spicy fragrance. Nice blended rainbow with a spicy scent, cupped with pinkish color which fading to a white towards the outer band. Medium tree. Spectacular lavender-pink with a brilliant orange center. Petals are cupped, round, highly overlapped, and covered with fine dark pink lines. Production is moderate to heavy and blooms for 8 months in tropical areas. Red starburst center. If nothing else your nose should be able to tell you the difference: unique strong spicy, nutmeg scent. Parent of Magnum Opus and Donna S. Heat makes the color more intense; a deeper, reddish pink. It fades to a lighter pink after a day or two. Tends to lose inflos, especially on small plants. Grainy pigmentation and smells like green cardamom with floral undertone. Can get powdery mildew. Highly variable with color, and a big fader. Cold tolerant. Hard to grow in cool climates. Wikipedia: German immigrant Hermann A. Widemann (1822–1899) started one of the first sugarcane plantations in Hawaii known as Grove Farm in 1854. During the American Civil War, the demand for Hawaii sugar grew, but Widemann supported the Confederate States. After leasing Grove Farm to its manager George Norton Wilcox (1839–1933) in November 1864, Widemann moved to Honolulu to work in the capital as a supreme court judge. Wilcox would later buy the plantation, and it remained in the family for over 100 years. Wilcox had an irrigation system built to bring water from the wet mountains to the flatter lower elevations where the crops were grown. This idea was later copied by many other planters in the islands. In 1881 Princess Ruth Keʻelikolani sold some adjoining land, which grew the acreage by about a factor of ten. In