Re: ornamental grass!

Something to keep in mind about H3, is that it covered plants grown in NORTH
AMERICA and only covers that up to around 1970ish.  Possibly Japanese Blood
Grass wasn't regularly cultivated here at that time (still a novelty or not
at all)  I had looked in H3 as well and saw the reference to Miscanthus
sacchariflorus.  Not the same plant.  I checked it in A-Z and that's Silver
Banner Grass.

Kitty
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] ornamental grass!


> Thanks, Kitty.  It's interesting that Hortus Third (I know it's old, but
> it was the standard) says Imperata, a name of no botanical
> standing used for Miscanthus sacchariflorus.  I think what
> sounded "off" to me was the koenigli 'Red Baron' which sounded
> much more German than Japanese.
> Auralie
>
> In a message dated 05/17/2005 10:31:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> 4042N15@nationalhearing.com writes:
> I also see where AHS A-Z prefers to use the cultivar name 'Rubra',
> considering 'Red Baron' to be a synonym.  However, even if it was named
> 'Rubra' before 'Red Baron', the "official rules" now state that Latin
words
> can no longer be used as cultivar names, so 'Red Baron' seems the more
> correct name.
>
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