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‘Purple Glow’

Details

Full nameTradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Purple Glow’.
Name statusNot 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).
OriginsUnknown.
ClassificationLike 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 protectionNone.
AvailabilityProbably lost from cultivation, it was last documented by Royal Horticultural Society (1999, p. 719).

Description

Never described.

Cultivar groupTradescantia 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.