Re: Colocasia
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- Subject: Re: Colocasia
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:05:37 -0600 (CST)
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In a message dated 2/16/01 9:18:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ju-bo@email.msn.com writes:
<< but think
that when you 'get into' the literature you will find that a lot if not most
of the names used for the different forms/cultivars of this species are
mostly 'informal'/unpublished names, and may number in the hundreds, >>
Well, I can say this. Eduardo's original question was about subspecies
(esculenta/antiquorum/aquatilis), and their classification based on tuber
form. Now we have gotten into cultivars, a completely different issue from
subspecies. No doubt, each subspecies has a number of cultivars; it would be
interesting to see if any one subspecies has significantly more cultivars
than the others.
Jason Hernandez
Naturalist-at-Large
