Re: A Pet Peeve and Need Identification Help

**Graham Rice g*@tiscali.co.uk**

Dear Garden Writers:

I just ran into something with Nurserymen's Exchange I haven't experienced
before.  I emailed then asking for the identification on a plant being sold
locally with a "Nurserymen's Exchange" label on the plant.

You can front and back of the label and the plant here:
http://www.plantcollector.us/IDNEEDED/pincushion1.jpg
http://www.plantcollector.us/IDNEEDED/pincushion2.jpg
http://www.plantcollector.us/IDNEEDED/pincushion3.jpg

They emailed me back saying they just grow it as a proprietary plant and
have nothing to do with nomenclature!

This is one of my major pet peeves -- not giving the public the proper Latin
name for a plant.  The only plants coming up as "pin cushion plants" in the
search engines are Sabiosa species. This is definitely not one of those
plants.

Can anyone here help me identify this plant?  It has just arrived locally
and is being sold for the outrageous price of $7 considering the plant has
no proper name listed.  No one here seems to know what it really is and they
are actually following directions to plant it as a "ground cover" in a
Michigan garden!

YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!  I just may use this incident in some articles to educate
my readers about the purpose of  those horrible "Latin names"!  In the
meantime, can someone here help me figure out what this plant really is?  I
tried feeling the tiny leaves but my partially numb fingers aren't letting
me even tell if the leaves are succulent or more like a baby's tear leaf.

Thank you in advance for listening to my Pet Peeve and helping me id this
plant.

Diana Pederson, Garden Writer
houseplants.bellaonline.com
gardening.bellaonline.com
enabled-gardener.us

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