‘David’s Blaby Blue’

Details

(Understanding this section)

Full name	Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘David’s Blaby Blue’.
Name status	Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. Listed for sale in Royal Horticultural Society (2000, p. 717). No hardcopy description has been found, so the name is accepted and will be established once published (Brickell et al., 2016, Art. 27.1). Also known as: ‘Blaby Blue’, an invalidly published assumed to refer to the same plant. The originator’s chosen name ‘David’s Blaby Blue’ is now accepted for this cultivar.
Origins	Origins documented by Hazel Kaye (David Simpson, personal correspondence, 2022). The plant occurred in the nursery of Ted Brown in Blaby, Leicester. Names after his son David who was killed in a road accident shortly before.
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 was last listed for sale by Royal Horticultural Society (2003, p. 727).

Description

Described by Hazel Kaye (David Simpson, personal correspondence, 2022).

Cultivar group	Tradescantia Andersoniana Group.
Flowers	Porcelain blue.

References

Royal Horticultural Society. (2000). RHS Plant Finder 2000.

Royal Horticultural Society. (2003). RHS Plant Finder 2003.

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.