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Symphytum × hidcotense P. D. Sell

Hidcote comfrey (Boraginaceae)

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Symphytum × hidcotense has bluish flowers (in the widespread cultivar 'Hidcote Blue'; pinkish in 'Hidcote Pink'), and spreads by stolons; it is a hybrid of Symphytum grandiflorum and probably Symphytum × uplandicum.

West Challow (VC22: Berkshire); 2018-04-20

 Hidcote comfrey / Symphytum × hidcotense: _Symphytum_ × _hidcotense_ has bluish flowers (in the widespread cultivar ’Hidcote Blue’; pinkish in ’Hidcote Pink’), and spreads by stolons; it is a hybrid of _Symphytum grandiflorum_ and probably _Symphytum_ × _uplandicum_.

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