Details
Full name | Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Chedglow’. |
Name status | Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. Published with no description by Royal Horticultural Society (1996, p. 679). No hardcopy description has been found, so the name is accepted and will be established once published (Brickell et al., 2016, Art. 27.1). |
Origins | Introduced by Hopleys (2022). |
Classification | Like other hardy garden hybrids, it is now placed in the Andersoniana Group. These hybrids are sometimes mislabelled as Tradescantia virginiana or the invalid botanical hybrid Tradescantia × andersoniana. |
Legal protection | None. |
Availability | Rare or lost from cultivation, it was last listed for sale by Royal Horticultural Society (2014, p. 775). |
Description
Described by Longwood Gardens (2022).
Cultivar group | Tradescantia Andersoniana Group. |
Foliage | Golden green. |
Flowers | Purple. |
References
Royal Horticultural Society. (1996). RHS Plant Finder 1996.
Royal Horticultural Society. (2014). RHS Plant Finder 2014.
Brickell, C. D., Alexander, C., Cubey, J. J., David, J. C., Hoffman, M. H. A., Leslie, A. C., Malécot, V., Jin, X. (2016). International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. PDF link.
Hopleys. (2022). Plants we introduced. Internet Archive link.
Longwood Gardens. (2022). Tradescantia ‘Chedglow’ (Andersoniana Group). Plant Explorer. Internet Archive link.