M. 'Crewdson Hybrid' (Infertile Blue Group)
A very reliable plant, shorter in stature than most of the other cultivars. It first appeared in the garden of Cicely Crewdson in 1939 and is thought to be the hybrid M. baileyi subsp. baileyi x M. grandis subsp. grandis.
MG Rating: ★★★★   Awards: PC (2005), AM (2008)
Introduced by: C. Crewdson. Named by: Jack Drake, Inshriach Nursery, 1957.
Registered by: The Meconopsis Group, 2002.
Flowering: May-June. Deep blue, lateral facing, open cup-shaped flowers. The petals are elliptic to obovate with a frilled and irregularly notched upper margin.
Emerging foliage: The emerging leaves have a marked brownish tinge together with some red-purple pigmentation. Their margins are regularly notched with crenate-serrate teeth.
Mature foliage: Narrow elliptic or oblong-elliptic leaf blades on long petioles with their margins regularly incised with shallow crenate-serrate teeth. Leaf base shortly attenuate, the apex acute.
Fruit capsule: Narrowly ellipsoid, densely covered with short bristles. Short style and rounded stigma. Infertile.
Etymology: Originally distributed as M. ‘Crewdson Hybrids' by Inshriach Nursery in 1957/1958. The plants were apparently once fertile and were raised by seed at Inshriach until 1959. The cultivar is now sterile and is propagated by division. It was renamed M. ‘Crewdson Hybrid’ on registration by The Meconopsis Group to meet the naming requirements of the ICNCP code.