Re: Variegated lobelia

Dixie Hougen <taos@erols.com> wrote:
<snip> 
> The variegation is attractive to me.  It is a gentle all over spotting
> of the light green foliage but it doesn't look diseased.  The three
> lower lips of the blossom are broad, which resembles my sole L.
> siphilitica more than than the several L. cardinalis, which have thinner
> lower lips.  However, my plant population is so small that I don't think
> I can make a broad assumption about fat lips or thin lips.

Dixie, my guess (and it is a guess) is that it is a hybrid.  
There are a couple of Bowden's hybrids between L. cardinalis and 
 L. siphilitica that have medium-green/maroon and 
medium-green/dark red variegated foliage.  It wouldn't surprise 
me at all if there is a light variegated one by now.

Jaime
"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive."
 A. Einstein

jknoble@warwick.net
Z6/5, NW NJ

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