Details
| Full name | Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Hutchinsonii’. |
| Name status | Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. Established by Arends (1932, p. 62). Because it was published before 1959, the Latin name can be accepted (Brickell et al., Art. 21.11). |
| Origins | Unknown. |
| 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 | Probably lost from cultivation, it was last documented by Staff of the L. H. Bailey Hortorium (1976, p. 1120). |
Description
Described by Arends (1932, p. 62).
| Cultivar group | Tradescantia Andersoniana Group. |
| Flowers | Soft pink-purple. |
References
Arends, G. (1932). Staudengrossgärtnerei Wuppertal-ronsdorf [Wuppertal-ronsdorf perennial nursery]. Internet Archive link.
Staff of the L. H. Bailey Hortorium. (1976). Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
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.