Usually, Foxglove flowers droop downwards but one variety, known as 'Candy Mountain', has flowers that have the opening pointing upwards. Otherwise, it's the same as a standard Foxglove. In my garden is a rather different-looking specimen. The flowers are set with the opening at the top, like the 'Candy Mountain' variant, but it also has a large flower at the apex of the stem, which is unlike any Foxglove I know of or which the interwebz seems to have any record of. The question is, do I have a novel variety or not?

Oh oh wait, Terminal Peloria! You have a mutant, possibly Digitalis purpurea monstrosa (wild huh)

https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/weir ... -foxgloves


We have a large Fascination in our garden, I’ll try to get a shot tomorrow while it’s in flower

Great. Thanks for that. Given that it's seeded from previous years' plants, this one has also got the mutation seen in 'Candy Mountain' of upright-facing flowers, so it's a serious mutant.

What you're seeing is a phenomenon known as fasciation. No, not 'fascination', but fasciation. More on this here.

Thanks Cali!

Now this song is in my head.

Fascinating stuff.







better than fascism anyday

The bottom one looks fine. It's unfasciated.