A hybrid, H. elliptica × H. speciosa.

Dense, rounded shrub to over 1 m tall with waxy stems. Leaves to about 6 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, obovate to elliptic, fleshy, blunt but with a small point at the tip. Flower clusters cylindrical, to about 7 cm long; summer to autumn. Flowers large, purplish pink. [H. lobelioides hort.]

Generally grown as the cultivar H. 'Blue Gem'.

Heenan (1994b)

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Scrophulariaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press. (as Hebe ×franciscana)