Re: Digitalis mertonensis

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• To: m*@ucdavis.edu
• Subject: Re: Digitalis mertonensis
• From: i*@easynet.co.uk (Ian Black)
• Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:37:03 GMT

Michael Bailes wrote:

>I purchased this today "Digitalis mertenensis" or "Strawberry Foxglove"
>Seems very big. Does anyone know anything about it? It seems to like water.

It's a fertile hybrid between D. purpurea (purple fls.) and D. grandiflora
(yellow fls.).  The flower colour is sometimes described as "crushed
strawberry" (!).  Reasonably perennial.  According to Graham Stuart Thomas,
the cross was first recorded in 1926 at the John Innes Horticultural
Institute at Merton, Surrey - hence the name.

Ian
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