Bold and cheerful, its large leaves and bright, early flowers show from a distance, despite the flowers emerging below the leaves. Large flowers exhibit in-curved, sugary pink spurs under wide, deep raspberry sepals. Large new spring leaflets are slightly blushed with red after flowering. Acquired in from Gotemba Nursery, Japan in 1997 as a "pink grandiflorum". 16" tall in flower. Over the years the foliage has exhibited yellow, rusty orange and maroon fall colors.
