Achimenes ‘Purple King’ detail

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  • Photographer: Gustav Ciamaga

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A. ‘Purple King’ is one of the oldest and most reliable Achimenes hybrids. It is moderately trailing, but more upright than other older cultivars, with large purplish blue flowers. It does well outdoors in summer, when grown under the same general conditions as tuberious begonias.