Details
Full name | Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Heavenly Blue’. |
Name status | Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. Established with a description by Vaughan’s Gardening Illustrated (1933, p. 82). |
Origins | Hybrid introduced around 1933 (Vaughan’s Gardening Illustrated, 1933, p. 82). |
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 has not been documented since its first publication (Vaughan’s Gardening Illustrated, 1933, p. 82). |
Description
Described by Vaughan’s Gardening Illustrated (1933, p. 82).
Cultivar group | Tradescantia Andersoniana Group. |
Flowers | Large and sky-blue. |
References
Vaughan’s Gardening Illustrated. (1933). Internet Archive link.