Details
| Full name | Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Atroviolacea’. |
| Name status | Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. Established by James Backhouse & Son (1889, p. 38). Because it was published before 1959, the Latin name with no description can be accepted (Brickell et al., 2016, Arts. 21.11, 27.1). Not to be confused with:
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| 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 listed for sale in Erhardt & Erhardt (1997, p. 657). |
Description
Described by Arends (1932, p. 62).
| Cultivar group | Tradescantia Andersoniana Group. |
| Flowers | Large and dark purple. |
References
James Backhouse & Son. (1889). Alpine Plants, Hardy Perennials, and Florists’ Flowers. RHS Lindley Library.
Arends, G. (1932). Staudengrossgärtnerei Wuppertal-ronsdorf [Wuppertal-ronsdorf perennial nursery]. Internet Archive link.
Erhardt, A. & Erhardt, W. (1997). PPP Index 3: The European Plant Finder.
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.