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A recent introduction collected by Crug Farm Plants under their number BSWJ 1769.
Distinctive green foliage with large purple spots. I bought it from Edulis and their label says: "An erect perennial with softly hairy stems and glossy dark green leaves. Upward-facing, star-shaped palest lilac flowers, spotted purple inside from late summer to autumn." Crug Farm plants said in their catalogue: "With distinctive foliage in this clone, which are decoratively marked with dark persistent blotches. A clone we collected seed from in Taipingshan a cold and wet mountainous area of Northern Taiwan, with day temperatures to only 3degC while we were there in 1993. A rhizomatous perennial toad lily, with erect leafy stems to 60cm tall bearing terminal corymbs of heavily spotted purplish-pink flowers with yellow tinged throats. Spread 50cm. Easily grown in sun or shade, in a moisture retentive acid-neutral soil which does not waterlog in winter." |
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| 10th May 2009 | ||
