Details
| Full name | Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Lilacina’. |
| Name status | Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. Established with a description by Manning (1893, p. 45). |
| Origins | Unknown. |
| Classification | It was originally published as Tradescantia virginica var. lilacina (Manning, 1893, p. 45). This has never been a valid botanical variety (POWO, 2022), so the plant is instead treated as a cultivar of the same name (Brickell et al., 2016, Art. 21.6). 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 was last docmented by Staff of the L. H. Bailey Hortorium (1976, p. 1120). |
Description
Described by Manning (1893, p. 45).
| Cultivar group | Tradescantia Andersoniana Group. |
| Flowers | Lilac. |
References
Manning, J. W. (1893). Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Choice Hardy Perennials. Internet Archive link.
Staff of the L. H. Bailey Hortorium. (1976). Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
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.
POWO. (2022). Tradescantia virginica. Plants of the World Online. Link.