Gigantea

Ellwanger & Barry, 1867

‘Gigantea’, S. vulgaris
Ellwanger & Barry 1867; S V
common name: Giant
Ellwanger & Barry Cat. No. 2, 43 [1867]; Stand. Pl. Names, 486 [1923] – as Giant; McKelvey, The Lilac, 305 [1928]; Wister, Lilacs for America, 49 [1942], 30 [1953]; Photo on Jorgovani/Lilacs 2015 DVD.
Cultivar name presumed registered 1953; name established and accepted.

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Gigantea Ellwanger and Barry, Cat. no. 2, 43 (1867-1868), “Very large spikes of flowers of a dark bluish purple, rich foliage…” – Baudriller, Cat. no. 43, 142 (1880), and as Lilas commun Géant. – Dieck, Haupt-Verzeichn. Zöschen, Nachtr. 1. 28 (1887).
Ellwanger and Barry state that this is “One of our seedlings.”
Giant has been adopted as approved common name by “Standardized Plant Names” (486, 1923).
Notes on plant in Dept. of Parks, Rochester, N. Y. (received from Ellwanger and Barry in 1892). Flowers single, large; corolla-lobes cucullate; tone dark; color in bud Dahlia Carmine to Schoenfeld’s Purple (XXVI.); when expanded Eupatorium Purple (XXXVIII.) with margins of Purplish Lilac (XXXVII.) without, Chinese Violet (XXV.) within. Clusters open, large, narrow. The pale margins of the corolla-lobes give a slightly variegated appearance to the clusters.

“THE LILAC: A Monograph” Susan Delano McKelvey, MacMillan, New York, 1928