Details
| Full name | Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Blue Denim’. |
| Name status | Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. Mentioned online by Land (2008). No hardcopy publication has been found, so the name is accepted and will be established once published (Brickell et al., 2016, Art. 27.1). |
| Origins | Seedling from a cross between Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Blue Stone’ and Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Zwanenburg Blue’, bred and named by Kevin Vaughn (personal correspondence, January 2022). |
| Classification | Like other hardy garden hybrids, it is now placed in the Andersoniana Group. These hybrids are sometimes mislabelled as T. virginiana or the invalid botanical hybrid T. × andersoniana. |
| Legal protection | None. |
| Availability | Rare in cultivation, it has not been found for sale since it was mentioned by Land (2008). |
Description
Described by Kevin Vaughn (personal correspondence, January 2022).
| Cultivar group | Tradescantia Andersoniana Group. |
| Flowers | The colour of washed blue jeans. |
| Comparisons | Shorter habit and bigger flowers than ‘Blue Stone’. |
References
Land, L. (2008, May 15). New Kinds of Spiderwort. The New York Times. Internet Archive link.
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.