Details
| Full name | Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Blushing Bride’. |
| Name status | Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. Listed for sale by the Royal Horticultural Society (2000), and listed online with a photo by Ènciklopediâ Dekorativnyh Sadovyh Rastenij (2006). Established by Rowe (2025). Not to be confused with:
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| Origins | Seedling from Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Pauline’ some time before 1996, selected 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 Tradescantia virginiana or the invalid botanical hybrid Tradescantia × andersoniana. |
| Legal protection | None. |
| Availability | Rare in cultivation, it was last correctly documented by Ènciklopediâ Dekorativnyh Sadovyh Rastenij (2006). All uses of the name now appear to refer to the invalid synonym Tradescantia ‘Blushing Bride’ [2005]. |
Description
Described by Kevin Vaughn (personal correspondence, January 2022).
| Cultivar group | Tradescantia Andersoniana Group. |
| Growth habit | Tall but clumping. |
| Flowers | Clear pink with very rounded, overlapping petals. |
References
Royal Horticultural Society. (2000). RHS Plant Finder 2000.
Ènciklopediâ Dekorativnyh Sadovyh Rastenij. (2006). TRADESKANCIÂ (TRADESCANTIA). 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.
Rowe, A. (2025). Compiling the first Tradescantia cultivar checklist. HortScience, 60(9); 1534-1542. Open access link.