M. 'Kilbryde Castle White'
A cultivar of garden origin related to M. gakyidiana. It has similarities to M. ‘Ascreavie White’ and may be synonymous with it but carries a separate name because M. ‘Kilbryde Castle White’ has longer, narrower, less coarsely toothed basal leaves and its petals are often blue veined when the buds first open.
Named by: E. Stevens, 2015. Registered by: E. Stevens, 2015.
Flowering: mid-May to early June. White flowers with a nodding or semi-nodding aspect. The pedicels elongate significantly as the flowers mature and the fruit capsules develop. Petals elliptic-ovate with undulate erose margins, overlapping at their base to form a cup-shaped flower. The newly opening petals are often blue veined but this fades to become a purer white as the flowers develop.
Emerging foliage: Early emerging erect leaves without any red-purple pigmentation but densely covered with long straw-coloured hairs with white tips.
Mature foliage: The mature basal leaves have long petioles and narrow elliptic-oblanceolate blades, their upper margins notched with serrate teeth. Leaf tips acute, leaf base attenuate.
Fruit capsule: Long and narrowly ellipsoid. Densely covered with reflexed bristles. Narrow style. Sterile.
Etymology: This plant was obtained from Kilbryde Castle, Dunblane in about 1994.