species and hybrids and cultivars
- Subject: species and hybrids and cultivars
- From: z*
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:54:46 +0200
Bob
I will try again. There are species and hybrids both in the wild and
in the garden Of course the species in the garden come from the
wild originally, directly or via seed. Both species and hybrids can
sport . People of Watanabe nursery go often to the foot of Mount
Fuji were there is a very large stand of H montana to collect
variageted sports They seem to find about one after a day work!.
So species in the wild can sport. They found a centre variegated
one and named it H montana Choko Nishiki. Acording to the rules
it is allowed to omit the montana part but as the nursery man said
you would loose a lot of information. A species in your garden can
sport too. If your H longipes gets a yellow edge tomorrow you could
name it H longipes "Bob's Yellow Edge"" or, less desirable, " Bob's
Yellow Edge". If we now look at the term cultivar, it turns out that
a cv can be a species but also a hybrid If a cv is a species it
could/should be named as eg H montana Choko Nishiki. If the cv is
some hybrid just give it a cv name like H. Royal Standard If not
clear , just ask
Ben J.M.Zonneveld
Clusius lab pobox 9505
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
mintemp-16C(5F)
Zonneveld@RULbim.LeidenUniv.NL
Fax: 31-71-5274999
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