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Re: Names

Dear Hermine,

OOPS! A slip of the pen on my part, you are correct, it is spelled
Sansevieria trifasciata 'Forescate'. I and several others have seen very
different looking plants grown as "Forescate'.

Sansevieria trifasciata 'Laurentii' was named Sansevieria trifasciata var.
laurentii (De Wildeman) N.E. Brown back when the distinction between garden
cultivar and botanical variety was no so clearly defined. The plant is
actually a variegated cultivar that first appeared in a garden near
Stanleyville in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and brought into cultivation by
Emil Laurent and is not a genuine botanical variety.

One wonders if Sans.kirkii var. pulchra N.E. Brown and Sans.cylindrica var.
patula N.E. Brown would also be better recognized as cultivars. Unlike the
other varieties he described, they differ from the typical species only in
leaf form and/or color.

Sansevieria trifasciata 'Hahnii' is a garden cultivar that Sylvan Hahn
named for himself in Latin form in 1941 under plant patent No. 470.

The Cultivated Code prohibits naming a new cultivar in Latin form after
1959 according to article 27. Any new cultivar name in Latin form would
automatically be invalid. One would suspect that the names Sans.trifasciata
'Nelsonii' and Sans.trifasciata 'Robusta' may actually be invalid unless it
can be shown they were named before 1959. (Sans.trifasciata 'Nelson' and
Sans.trifasciata 'Robust' would be valid as new names according to the
rules.)

Unlike the naming of a new botanical species or variety, no Latin diagnosis
or type specimen is required in naming a cultivar, only that it is
published in a gardening journal or catalog, preferably with a photograph
and mention of how it is unique. Obtaining plant patent is another matter
altogether but the new name still must in accordance to the Cultivated
Code.

Cereusly Steve.

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•Subject: Re: [SANS] Names
•From: hermine
•Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 15:55:45 -0700
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>
>Certain variegates are unstable and may not propagate true.
>Sans.trifasciata 'Forscante' has proven to be one example of this. Many
>plants presently grown under that name look very different from the
>original and from one another. Some of these could potentially become new
>cultivars if they look consistently different from other named cultivars
>and propagate true.

NO KIDDING! mine are as alike as peas in a pod. 'Foresgate'? right?

>Does anyone else have examples of variegates not propagating true or of
any
>potentially new cultivars?

sure do. lips are sealed until they go through some generations of
stability.
i did not know that anyone was in the habit of giving them Latin names.
only sickly cute ones.

hermine
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