Large, blue-purple flowers with a wine-red tinged bar and chocolate-brown anthers.

Group: Late large-flowered group
Flowering period(s): Jul Aug Sep Oct
Raised by: Charles Noble
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Date raised: rb1865 i1875
Parentage: lanuginosa x 'Rubroviolacea'
Other name(s): lanuginosa var violacea; lanuginosa 'Violacea'; 'Lanuginosa Violacea'

Further detail:

Flower diameter: 17-18cm
Tepals: 6-8; overlapping, margin sometimes wavy
Leaves: ternate

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Charles Noble