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Key facts

	Parentage: C. ladanifer x C. creticus
	Flower colour: pink-purple with blotches
	Flower diameter: 9cm
	Height & Spread: 2m x 1.5m+
	Habit: upright

Notes: one of the most widely grown kinds, but the cultivars listed below are much less well known. They are all very good.

Cultivars (see below): 'Alan Fradd' is an albino sport with white, blotched petals (it frequently produces flowers in which a segment of one petal shows the original pink-purple colour) (I have received 2 separate reports in June 2005 of similar white sports occurring); nothof. holorhodos has unblotched, warm pink flowers (RHS Colour Chart ref. 73A) and greyish foliage; nothof. stictus has pale pink, blotched flowers (RHS Colour Chart ref. 65B) and greyish leaves; ('Betty Taudevin') is a name often applied to the commonly grown clone (RHS Colour Chart ref. 67C). It is not distinct.

Cistus x purpureus Lam. (sometimes sold as 'Betty Taudevin')↑

Cistus x purpureus nothof. stictus↑

Cistus x purpureus 'Alan Fradd'↑

Cistus x purpureus nothof. holorhodos ↑

This page last updated 04/07/05

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