Roth
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That's what the people call helenae delicatum, from Tuyen Quang. The local name is the same as what they use for coccineum (hai tim). They can be more or less pinkish.
wild flower on a wild plant...
The plants cannot be told apart from normal helenae ( and I think it is just a local color variation anyway). They are however definitely not hybrids.
In Vietnam, there are many collectors for henryanum, coccineum ( the two or three types), and helenae. Many times too, one collector is cheaper than the others, and successfully sells his batch by kilo. The others batches just die at his competitor's place. However, looking at the leaves, there are many strange batches of plants, and most likely unknown variants of some species. Some of them we will most likely never see in cultivation. That batch of helenae 'delicatum' was 23 kg, and there is no more coming apparently.
wild flower on a wild plant...
The plants cannot be told apart from normal helenae ( and I think it is just a local color variation anyway). They are however definitely not hybrids.
In Vietnam, there are many collectors for henryanum, coccineum ( the two or three types), and helenae. Many times too, one collector is cheaper than the others, and successfully sells his batch by kilo. The others batches just die at his competitor's place. However, looking at the leaves, there are many strange batches of plants, and most likely unknown variants of some species. Some of them we will most likely never see in cultivation. That batch of helenae 'delicatum' was 23 kg, and there is no more coming apparently.