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Re: S. grandis

Dear forum members,

The following message is forwarded from one sent to Yale Sedman regarding
the identity of the plant he got from Jim Waddick as Sans.grandis. The
picture he attached of the plant was quite revealing and extremely helpful
in settling this matter.

My sincerest thanks to him for getting us back on topic.

Cereusly Steve
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> From: Stephen M Jankalski <CEREOID@prodigy.net>
> To: Yale Sedman <ys-sedman@wiu.edu>
> Subject: Re: S. grandis
> Date: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 9:20 PM
>
> Dear Yale,
>
> Thank you ever so much for the picture of the plant Jim has as
> Sans.grandis.

> Even though one cannot be absolutely sure of its true identity without
> seeing the flowers, the leaf shape, coloring and markings fall well
within
> the variation of Sans.hyacinthoides as presently defined by Obermeyer
> (1992) and Van Jaarsveld (1994). It is actually a very good match for
> plants Van Jaarsveld illustrated (fig.3) growing at Pretoria University
> Botanical Garden as Sans.hyacinthoides. It is not a good match of the
> original Sans.grandis which was described in 1903 from a plant of unknown
> origin that was grown at Kew Gardens since 1896. The latter is
illustrated
> as having darker green leaves that are more distinctly horizontally
banded.
> It is highly doubtful that the plant is a direct descendent of the
original
> Kew clone.
>
> I wonder if anyone knows if the original Sans.grandis is still being
grown
> at Kew?
>
> Cereusly Steve
> ----------
> > From: Yale Sedman <ys-sedman@wiu.edu>
> > To: Steve Jankalski <cereoid@prodigy.net>
> > Subject: S. grandis
> > Date: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 6:59 PM
> >
> > Steve,
> > Jim Waddick sent me a number of his Sans a while back.  The smallish
> > Sans grandis he sent has produced a large plant, and I thought you
might
> > like to see this young leaf.  I think it quite handsome!  Hope it is
> > helpful with the id of the S. grandis problem.  Yale
> > --
> > Yale Sedman
> > 802 S. McArthur
> > Macomb, Il 61455
> > ys-sedman@wiu.edu
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