M. 'Cameron Carmichael'
M. baileyi x M. ‘Bobby Masterton’. A cultivar which exhibits many of the characteristics of M. baileyi but has larger flowers.
Hybridised by: C. Carmichael, pre-2005. Introduced by: C. Carmichael, 2005.
Named by: E. Stevens, 2015. Registered by: E. Stevens, 2015.
Flowering: May-June. Sky-blue, saucer-shaped, lateral-facing flowers with broadly ovate petals which overlap extensively.
Emerging foliage: Paddle shaped leaves on sturdy petioles which initially are slightly tinted with a purple-red pigmentation. The leaf-blades have a truncate or slightly cordate base and obtuse to sub-obtuse apex with a serrate/crenate leaf margin and are densely covered with pale short hairs.
Mature foliage: The mature basal leaves are paddle shaped to oblong-elliptic. The stems are well clothed with erect leaves which clasp the stem.
Fruit capsule: Broadly ellipsoid and covered with short straw-coloured slightly reflexed bristles. The style is broad and topped with a substantial broad rounded stigma. Infertile.
Etymology: Named after the raiser, the late Cameron Carmichael.