The lower 88 m are made up of the typical mauve argillaceous micaceous, fine-grained sandstones with rare brownish shaly interbeds.
All tarsi with the upper sides mauve-grey with red suffusion.
As mauveine faded easily, our contemporary understanding of mauve is as a lighter, less saturated color than it was originally known.
Mauve flowers form on panicles, 20 to 40 cm long.
The color ranges from strawberry pink (hence the common name) to mauve.
The original seat covers were a mauve and grey moquette.
The flowers emerge in late summer; in wild plants these are normally mauve, but white-flowered plants also occur occasionally.
The first, carried by 156451, is mainly mauve, but with white bands.
