• 'Alexandrina' - rose-purple outside, inside of petals pure white. One of the larger and earlier flowering varieties

• 'Andre LeZoy' - flowers are dark pink to purplish on the outside petals are white inside and the flowers are decidedly cup-shaped

• 'Burgundy' - flowers are the deep purple color of burgundy wine, appearing earlier than those of most other varieties

• 'Brozzoni' - flowers are 10 inches wide - outside of the petals is tinged a pale purplish rose, but considered white

• 'Grace McDade' - flowers are white with pink at the base of the petals

• 'Lennei' - darkest purplish-magenta flowers of this group

• 'Liliputin' - smaller flowers and smaller habit than most M. soulangiana varieties.

• 'Lombardy Rose' - lower surface of the petals is dark rose, upper surface white.

• 'Rustica' (syn. 'Rubra' or 'Rustica Rubra') - flowers are more rose-red than those of 'Lennei' inside of the petals is white but the general effect is more red than 'Lennei'

• 'Speciosa' - flowers are almost white and 6 inches in diameter, very close to 'Alba' but  more color than 'Brozzoni'. last of this group to bloom. Upright, tall and fast growing

• 'San Jose' - flowers are large, rosy purple, fragrant and vigorous growing. Blooms earlier than other varieties - deeper colored than most with the exception of 'Lennei'

• 'Verbanica' - flowers outside are clear rose pink, inside white. Late bloomers, when most of the other varieties are dropping their petals. slow growing.

A cross made by one of Napoleon's retired soldiers, about 1820, between M. denudata x M. parviflora