Details
Full name | Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Purple Glow’. |
Name status | Not established, an invalidly published name for an undescribed cultivar. Listed for sale with no description by Royal Horticultural Society (1987, p. 391). No description has been found, so the name is not established (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 documented by Royal Horticultural Society (1999, p. 719). |
Description
Never described.
Cultivar group | Tradescantia Andersoniana Group. |
References
Royal Horticultural Society. (1987). RHS Plant Finder 1987.
Royal Horticultural Society. (1999). RHS Plant Finder 1999.
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.