Details
| Full name | Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Therese’. |
| Name status | Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. Listed online by The Trial Gardens (2009). No hardcopy description has been found, so the name is accepted and will be established once published (Brickell et al., 2016, Art. 27.1). |
| Origins | Introduced by Intrinsic Perennial Gardens (Plant Lust, 2022). |
| 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 | Rare or lost from cultivation, it has not been found for sale. |
Description
Described by Plant Lust (2022).
| Cultivar group | Tradescantia Andersoniana Group. |
| Growth habit | 60cm high. |
| Foliage | Grey-green. |
| Flowers | True pink. |
References
The Trial Gardens. (2009). Tradescantia ‘Therese’. University of Georgia. Internet Archive link.
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.
Plant Lust. (2022). Tradescantia ‘Therese’. Archive Today link.