Pire white 7- inch flowers often suffused with pink at base on the abaxial side, opens perfectly flat and usually faces sideways or somewath downwards. 6 petals, obicular to broadly obovate, base narrowly clowed, snowy white, samens cream , sometimes tinged with light purple on the abaxal surfaces of connectives. It is a very slow grower and has eight years from graft to have the first bloom.(Tetsuo Magaki) Japan