TradescantiaHub ,
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Exciting announcement! I have bred a new interspecific hybrid - Tradescantia brevifolia × hirta. This hybrid is previously undescribed and unnamed.

The seed parent was T. brevifolia 'Scout', and the pollen parent was T. hirta 'Swifttale'. I cross-pollinated and collected seeds in summer 2023, they germinated that autumn, and of the two surviving seedlings the first one just flowered for the first time this week.

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One stem of the previous plant, with a bright pink three-petaled flower.
Closer view of the flower. It has dark pink stamen filaments and yellow anthers, with slightly ruffled edges to the petals.

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