Website/Catalog  (2014)  Includes photo(s).
 
‘Maksymilian Kolbe’ Star-shaped lilac-pink flowers, 15-18 cm across, composed of 6-8 tepals, 7.5-10 cm long and 2.5-4.5 cm wide, with a pinkish central bar and slightly wavy edges, turn light violet with age. Purple cream anthers on creamy filaments. Main flush of flowers in May-June, and a second small one in July-August. It grows 3 m high. All aspects except south.  Useful for growing on trellises, poles and other garden supports.
Named to honor saint of roman catholic church - Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II.