I bought Turkish Kikyo last weekend, and it's still in full bloom.
This flower has such a funny name in Japanese... Turkish because (most likely) it looks like a Turkish turban, and Kikyo because it looks like a completely different flower named kikyo which is bellflowers in English.
So the name is completely wrong.
Turkish Kikyo comes from the U.S. and in the U.S., it is called Texas Bluebell or Tulip Gentian, and has Eustoma as its scientific name. But to the Japanese, this will eternally be Turkish Kikyo.
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