Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tommie Lockwood clone.first blooms on this plant., 1 by Eclipse

Eclipse wrote:
This might very well be the only surviving plant of this cultivar.It was saved from the compost heap by Timothy plowman years ago (1973) after the Brug Master Tommie Lockwood died tragically in a car crash in Mexico.All of Tommies hybrids,species and collected clones were then thrown out by the university where he worked..all but this plant(clone)...Tomothy saved it and gave a piece to a collector in Calif.That plant died a few years ago after I got a piece.So as far as we can tell this is the only remaining plant of this line in this country(if it originally was a collected plant)if it was a hybrid Tommie did we will never know..his good friend mr. Plowman has died also as well as the teacher of both Richard Shultes.