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Roscoea purpurea 'Wild Ripple'



One of my own selections from a plant I bought at a Devon NCCPG sale. The flowers open purple but rapidly fade through red to pink. The colour is rippled through the labellum and the final shade is a soft, rather dusty pink.
Green foliage and dark red stems. The stems are rather narrow, about pencil thickness, but it produces them very freely.


6th September 2018



1st September 2019 16th August 2018 23rd August 2024



References:
  • Flora of China Online, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200028432 , accessed 19.11.2024.
  • Cowley, Jill - The Genus Roscoea, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 2007.
  • Dunlop, Gary - 'The Genus Roscoea', Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society, Vol.76, Part.2 (2008).
  • Wilford, Richard - 'Roscoeas for the rock garden', Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society, Vol.67, Part.1 (1999).
  • Wilford, Richard - 'Roscoea on trial', The Plantsman, Vol.11, Part.2 (2012).