This example was a low small bush surrounded by, and tangled with, several other plants. Note the single flower bud about to bloom.

Each plant will produce about six blooms in a season, with the exceptional plant producing up to ten. Each of these buds was about 4 inches (10 cm.) tall. Each will turn into a flower roughly 10 inches (25 cm.) across. Unfortunately none were in bloom on this visit.

Leafs grow from the end of the stem. Some leaf clusters at stem ends will evolve into buds and flowers, but most will not. The stems themselves are red or brown in color.

The stems of the plant are red, but the leaves are a deep green. By coincidence, the flowers will also be red around the perimeter and white in the center.

Notice the red around the base of the bud. The is the red that will become the red edging of the flower.

Here were three large buds on one plant. Note a fourth in the right background and out of focus.