Hybridizers: Digitalis interspecies - different gloves for different foxes, 3 by pmmGarak

pmmGarak wrote:
My first hybrid to flower was lutea x purpurea. To be honest, the two plants are weak. One of them inherited the variegation from flashing spires, flowered once, but didn\'t survive winter 17/18, which was like lyophilization in february and march. The other one survived, but didn\'t flower in 2018. for now it seems alive and strengthening, but you\'ll never know until winter is over. The flowers are a bit bigger than lutea and inherit traces of the purpurea spots and its rounded tips as well as the narrow lutea tube, but no sign of the often called hybrid vigor. Leaves are intermediate between parents - not as crumbled as purpurea but longer and thinner than that parent.

pictures 1-3 show the hybrid, 4 and 5 the parents