Feel the heat from this totally HOT selection of Echinacea from the breeding line that created ‘Coconut Lime’! This is the first double flowered orange Echinacea and it is more than a color breakthrough, it is a genuine show stopping, garden brightening, easy growing landscape winner!! Tall and vigorous growing, ‘Hot Papaya’ has thick, deep green foliage that forms a sweet basal mound that gives rise to thick stems and buds in June. The buds open showing off hot papaya orange rays surrounding a fat, double, orange mass of petals, a look that will literally stop traffic! While exotic looking, ‘Hot Papaya’ is quite easy to grow and drought resistant once established. It also cries out to be cut for a vase in the house!!