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To be honest, I have no idea what to make of this one. I have obtained it from two different sources in case I had the wrong thing by mistake, but this seems to be the proper bearer of the name.
It implies that it is Ellen Willmotts original seedling of the hybrid, but it isn't. The hybrid between E.alpinum and E.pinnatum colchicum is a red orange flowered plant.
My plant of E.x warleyense is the real thing, I am confident, though if anybody has time to check, the painting of it commissioned by Ellen Willmott, and used as the basis
for identifying the hybrid by William Stearn must be about somewhere, and what with one thing and another, it is probably held by the RHS in the Lindley Library (or at least, that would be my
first port of call, if I had the time).
However, I would put money on it that this isn't even a form of E.x warleyense. It seems to me to be a form of E.x cantabridgiense (or possibly a small flowered
E.alpinum).
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