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‘Cerulea Minor’

Details

Full nameTradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Cerulea Minor’.
Name statusAccepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar.

Published by William Prince & Sons (1832, p. 209). Because it was published before 1959, the Latin name with no description can be established (Brickell et al., 2016, Arts. 21.11, 27.1).
OriginsUnknown.
ClassificationLike 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 protectionNone.
AvailabilityProbably lost from cultivation, it has not been documented since its first publication (William Prince & Sons, 1832, p. 209).

Description

Never described.

Cultivar groupTradescantia Andersoniana Group.

References

William Prince & Sons. (1832). Annual Wholesale Catalogue of American Trees, Shrubs, Plants and Seeds, Cultivated and for Sale at the Linnaean Botanical Garden and Nurseries Near New York. 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.