Roscoea cautleyoides 'Purple Giant'

Roscoea cautleyoides 'Purple Giant'

	Roscoea cautleyoides 'Purple Giant' has large light purple flowers. The lateral petals stand out horizontally from the flower. It is a slightly paler flower than 'Purple King' and has white hooded staminodes beneath the dorsal (top) petal. In 'Purple King' they are mauve. I got it from Long Acre Plants, their catalogue entry says: "May flowering. Really the purple equivalent of 'Kew Beauty', ie a big flowered cautleyoides but purple." Jill Cowley says: "Flowers large, deep purple (N79B - purple group), c. 30cm tall."
6th June 2005


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References:

Flora of China online, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200028432 , accessed 23.11.2024.

Cowley, Jill - The Genus Roscoea, Kew 2007

Dunlop, Gary - The Genus Roscoea in cultivation, Journal of the Alpine Garden Society, Vol.76, Part.2 (2008)

Wilford, Richard - Roscoeas for the rock garden, Journal of the Alpine Garden Society, Vol.67, Part.1 (1999)

Wilford, Richard - Roscoea on trial, The Plantsman, Vol.11, Part.2 (2012)