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Re: Names

I actually completely misunderstood the question Lowella asked. but i got
some of my own answered. i had also made a typo back there in which i say,
oh, i wanted to name something, but i really meant, i did not want to name
it. i have spell check, but alas, it does not have ESP.

so all my various silver hahniis some of them wild collected, others
appearing in propagation greenhouses from single leaves of green hahnii,
may now be grouped together. this is a considerable savings in plastic labels

I have something which really looks exactly like variegated guineensis, and
in fact, was wild collected as a variegated plant in a field of wild-grown
guineensis, the only difference being STIFF NON FLOPPY STEMS. Jack Craig
grew this as fast as he could, which is what he does in his tropical
environment in which he uses variegated Sansevierias as massed bedding
plants, and the plant is truly different. i think i list it as 'Craig's
variegated guineensis" with some explanation in the catalog. few people
really believe there is a non floppy variegated guineensis, but the
difference in the stem strength is striking, even tho the leaves look
exactly alike.

like i said, i am not a taxonomist, and i must describe what i see.
i also buy plants which i suspect might be the same as what i have, and
then i make by now a feeble attempt to trace the thing back to the first
time it was published i a catalog. often this is obscured by vanity, ego, etc.

I really do not care who did it first, except to adhere to the taxonomy
rule, you get there first with a printed description, and that is the name,
by golly.

Jack Craig believed in pushing a plant with unstable variegation by growing
it under extreme or :forcing conditions, to push it to do its best/worst,
and then to cull savagely.

this is not the Craig after whom things "craigii' are named.

hermine
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