M. 'Cally Purple' (Fertile Blue Group)
A mauve-purple cultivar found amongst seed-raised plants of M. ‘Lingholm’. It should be propagated vegetatively to maintain its identity.
Raised by: M. Wickenden, Cally Gardens. Introduced by: M. Wickenden.
Named by: M. Wickenden. Registered by: E. Stevens, 2015.
Flowering: May-June. Mauve-purple open saucer-shaped flowers with a lateral-facing to half-nodding aspect. The petals are ovate to elliptic-ovate with a frilled undulate margin.
Emerging foliage: Pale green leaves covered with white-tipped pale hairs.
Mature foliage: The basal leaves are oblong-elliptic with a few shallow sinuate teeth along their margins. The leaf base is narrowly cuneate to broadly attenuate, apex sub-obtuse.
Fruit capsule: Ellipsoid, covered with straw-coloured bristles. Long narrow style.
Etymology: Selected by the late Michael Wickenden of Cally Gardens from a large seed-raised planting of M. ‘Lingholm' and named after his nursery.