Small, bell-shaped, nodding or drooping flowers. Outside greyish purple with scattered white hairs, inside pale green with a broad green bar at the base shading to greyish purple at the top. Creamy white anthers and pale green filaments. Fruit-heads persistent. Named after one of the characters in the tale of Genji (Genji monogatari, a very old Japanese novel), though "Murasaki" also means "purple".

Approximate height:  The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	1.0 or less metres
Flowering period(s):  Warning: the months here are approximate for the northern hemisphere: users south of the equator should add approximately 6 months so that July becomes January etc.	Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	Mikiyoshi Chikuma
Country of origin:	Japan
Date raised:  r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	fs2000 ni2006
Parentage:  (s) = seed parent	Unknown
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 1.5cm Tepals: 4; 3cm long, 1cm wide, thick and fleshy, long-pointed, tips strongly recurved, margins frilled, touching towards base Leaves: simple, margins entire