Re: summary of catagories
- Subject: Re: summary of catagories
- From: b*
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:59:48 -0500
Hi Ben
Thanks for these lists and explanations.
Bye
Bob
zonneveld wrote:
>
> Bob
> Just to sum up all categories:
> 1. SPECIES ( 23!) as originally found in the wild eg: H montana
> 2. HYBRIDS: crosses between species, from the wild or manmade
> 3. CULTIVARS that are species, from the wild eg H montana
> "Choko Nishiki" or manmade eg H kikutii "Red Neck Heaven"
> 4. CULTIVARS that are hybrids, from the wild eg H "Alismifolia" or
> manmade eg H "Royal Standard"
> PS the term specioid is superfluous and is best abandoned. It is
> not an official term and is occasionally used for cultivars that have
> been so long in culture that they were looked upon as being a kind
> of species eg H fortunei. However, these are just old hybrids not a
> different category. By the way how old is old? G Schmid recently
> used the term specioid for his hybrid H "Laevigata"
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