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RE: Cimicifuga into Actaea
>GWL: For the foreseeable future, do not, I repeat (with a tremor in my
>electronic voice), change Cimicifuga to Actaea. I love the RHS and I love
>their magazine, and agree it's about the best around BUT, remember the
>chrysanthemum! And, too, remember that actaea's produce poisonous berries
>while bugbanes do not. Bugbane is a major healthy herb, actaeas are not.
>Confusion will fall upon our heads, especially in American with it's
general
>problem of not reading what's written. Peter
Moreover, no nursery I'm aware of has embraced the change. Every list and
every catalogue still refers to Cimicifuga--and I suspect that individual
gardeners will be even more reluctant to lump the two genera.
Carlo
Carlo A. Balistrieri
Nemorosa Horticulture
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, USA
Zone 4a-5b
NARGS
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