Details
| Full name | Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Lilacina Plena’. |
| Name status | Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. Established with a description by Foerster (1932, p. 10). Because it was published before 1959, the Latin name can be accepted (Brickell et al., 2016, Art. 27.1). |
| Origins | Unknown. |
| 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 was last listed for sale by the Royal Horticultural Society (1990, p. 493). |
Description
Described by Foerster (1932, p. 10).
| Cultivar group | Tradescantia Andersoniana Group. |
| Flowers | Light blue with double petals. |
References
Foerster, K. (1932). Grossgärtnerei Winterharter Blütenpflanzen [Large-scale nursery of hardy flowering plants]. Internet Archive link.
Royal Horticultural Society. (1990). RHS Plant Finder 1990.
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.