The blooms are fairly large, big enough to fill a person's hand, and pink to reddish in color. Each has five or six long petals that narrow at the tips. Altogether, a flower that wouldn't look at all out of place on Earth, yet not quite matching any existing species or cultivar.

Merlin blinks a bit at the question, not really having expected many people to express such an interest.

"You like gardening?" That, or she's just plain bored, but either way he'd need to know how much to explain.