Hebe speciosa ‘Variegata’ (‘Tricolor’)
Kingdom: Plantae
(Unranked): Angiosperms
(Unranked): Eudicots
(Unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Genus: Hebe
Species: Hebe speciosa ‘Variegata’
Synonym: Hebe speciosa ‘Tricolor’, H. 'Purple Tips'
Binomial name: Hebe speciosa ‘Variegata’
Hebe speciosa ‘Variegata’ is a New Zealand native plant. The first reference to it appeared in 1854 in the Floricultural Cabinet and Florist Magazine.
It has a dense, bushy, evergreen rounded shrub (1 m or more high) It has broad spear-shaped glossy gray-green leaves (6–10 cm) long, with irregular cream margins and undersides of grayish lavender.
Small 7 cm clusters of violet-purple flowers come in summer.
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