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Phormium ‘Amazing Red’

06 Oct 2005

General information

Cultivar name:

Phormium ‘Amazing Red’

Originator:

 

Publication:

Not listed by Heenan (1991). Our plant came from a nursery in Derbyshire and we have seen similar looking plants with the same name for sale by one other nursery.

Parentage:

 

 

Leaf colour

Colour group:

Brown

Upper surface:

Dark brownish-red with many narrow indistinct paler lines.
Amazing Red - Upper surface

Lower surface:

Brown with bluish-grey bloom; dark red margins and midrib.
Amazing Red - Lower surface

Comments:

Very similar to ‘Bronze Baby’ but slightly paler in colour and with less distinct margins.

 

Growth form

Shape group:

Spreading

Leaf length:

< 80 cm

Leaf width:

< 3 cm

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Flowers and fruit

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Published descriptions

HER

A demure species with very narrow foliage and an excellent saturation of red foliage with pink overtones when backlit by the sun; excellent for integration into the front position of the border, or used as a foliage specimen in smaller container compositions.

 

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