Epimedium grandiflorum 'Azumino'

[WimB]

Yesterday I received a piece of Epimedium grandiflorum 'Azumino'.

It was still in leaf, so it's certainly not a pure E. grandiflorum.
The rootstock looks like the ones on a grandiflorum and the flowers look like a grandiflorum too (according to the friend who gave it to me).

I can find no information about this "hybrid"(??) though, so I was wondering if anyone here knows anything about this cultivar?

[Geo F-W]

Hi Wim,

If it still has its leaves, it is clearly not a pure grandiflorum indeed. Would you have pictures of the leaves? the flowers?

May be a sempervirens? Or a grandiflorum/sempervirens cross?

[TheOnionMan]

Hi Geoffrey,  Wim also posted this topic on NARGS Forum, here's a link that shows the foliage. 
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=943.msg14778#msg14778

Scroll up to read the discussion about this plant; my guess is this is not an intentionally selected and named hybrid, rather, it is a form of E. sempervirens that someone picked up or bought in the city of Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.  The flowers on sempervirens are similar to those on grandiflorum.


edit by maggi to highlight link to Wim's pix 

[WimB]

Sorry for posting this question on multiple fora....just following the specialists around all over the world 

[Ian Y]

Sorry for posting this question on multiple fora....just following the specialists around all over the world  

 Wim, no need to apologise- the more advice you can reach the better  

[WimB]

Sorry for posting this question on multiple fora....just following the specialists around all over the world  

 Wim, no need to apologise- the more advice you can reach the better  

Yes, thought so too