Another species from Japan that first created interest in 1832 from van Siebold and finally got to registration by Moren in 1834. One of the first daylilies to bloom each year. A light medium orange but very noticeable because of the high bud count and heavy blooming before other flowers set buds. Buds carry a tell-tale brownish tinge on the reverse. There are several clones in the trade now and that makes identification a challenge at times. This is a vigorous grower and a popular daylily. The so-called “registration by Moren in 1834” must have been more of a botanical confirmation of the species as the American Hemerocallis Society, also known as the American Daylily Society was not founded until 1946. I have read and have repeated on this site that the daylily Apricot (Yeld, 1893) was the first ever recorded by the Society but that cannot be true either. Maybe a plant historian can assist here as the registration concept would apply to all the known species which predated the AHS. Regardless of the naming issue, daylily collectors do in fact like the contribution to spring these early bloomers make.