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Venus Victrix

A most extraodinary fuchsia...

Boullemier says:

"Venus Victrix. Single. One ot the most interesting cultivars, was an unintentional seedling raised by Gulliver of Herstmonceaux in 1840 but was not introduced until 1842 when it was distributed by Cripps of Tunbridge Wells at a price of one guinea. This diminuitive plant has a white tube and sepals, tipped green with a purple-violet corolla in fact a pure blue when first open. This cultivar was the first white tubed cultivar and on account of its unusual colour combination was extensively used for hybridising and is still being used to try and produce that elusive non-fading blue. It can claim to have its blood, however diluted, in practically all the white tube cultivars since raised. Venus Victrix is now very difficult to locate and still sought after by most hybridists. Should you be fortunate to obtain it, could be most disappointed with its unattractive habit and growth, tiny flowers which are fairly free and of rather dwarfish growth and straggly. Best grown as H2 (cool) but has been known to stand H3 (winter hardy) conditions. Venus Victrix is truely one for the genuine collector. (F. magellanica  x. Gulliver )"

Venus Victrix - Gulliver 1840 GB B S white/l.lilacpink violetpurple