N. 'Hickory Bend Red Night'.
Descriptions by Charles Leach.
Hickory Bend Red Night is a chance seedling that owes its existence to being exceptionally cold tolerant. I was going to leave it outside to parish a few years ago until I relented upon seeing it still blooming in a pool with a skim of ice on it. A few years ago David Curtright and walter Pagles were taken by its dark maroon foliage while visiting and both took tubers back to California with them. A couple years later David e-mailed a photo of H.B. Red Night that had survived winter in a pool at Mission San Juan Capistrano where night air temperatures in winter fall well below freezing. Hickory Bend Red Night is a tropical night bloomer. The flower is rose red, 6"-8"(15-20 cm). Leaf spread is about 5' - 6' (152-182 cm) and the dark maroon leaves are about 12" (30 cm) across.