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The first plants arising from the cross were fertile and were sold as M. 'Crewdson Hybrids' from Jack Drake's nursery at Inshriach until 1959, when it became sterile and was then propagated by division. The plant is shorter than many Meconopsis hybrids.
Description
This cultivar has deep blue, open, cup-shaped flowers in May to June. They are slightly smaller than the flowers of other hybrids. The oval to elliptical petals have frilly edges and are slightly overlapping at the base.
The emerging leaves have a brownish tinge with some red-purple pigmentation. The margins have regular serrate-dentate teeth. The mature foliage is green with narrow elliptical blades on long petioles. The leaf margins have regular shallow teeth.
The fruit capsule is a narrow ellipsoidal shape and is covered with dense, spreading bristles. The stigma is short and swollen.
A cultivar with similar features is Meconopsis 'Mrs Jebb', which may have been selected from seedlings when M. 'Crewdson Hybrid' was still fertile.
Meconopsis 'Crewdson Hybrid' is easily available from specialist nurseries.