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Roscoea scillifolia Pink x tibetica Pink



With these hybrids I am never certain that I haven't nurtured a stray seedling in the pot. This purple flower was a surprise - I had hoped that the pink scillifolia and the pink tibetica were the consequence of equivalent genes, in which case I was hoping for a pink flower. Well, that's not what I have so now I have to come up with a new theory.
This is the flower shape I was expecting and it doesn't look like any of the species that commonly produce rogue seedlings about the place so I am watching and waiting (I should be raising baby seedlings from it but I forgot).


23rd June 2011



29th June 2017



References:
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  • 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).