IB-MAC & JOPPA PARROT

Afterthought concerning the labeling
problem...  This might be a good place
to find out if some of these elusive
things are still around.

Is anyone here growing IB-MAC [False]?
It was so widely distributed at one time
that catalogs distinguished between
IB-MAC True and IB-MAC [False].  Of
course, only the real one was registered.

Both were dark reddish-violet selfs with
a near-black signal patch.  "True" had =

characteristic cup-shaped falls.  The
imposter had conventionally rounded =

falls.

Because they were relataively easy to
tell apart, and IB-MAC is a strong grower,
the true cultivar has survived.  But has =

the imposter?


Is anyone on the list still growing
JOPPA PARROT?

It's a classic case of the real thing
being driven out of distribution by a
strong-growing imposter.

Both had light mauve standards.

Both had bronze/gold falls splashed
and splotched mulberry. =


The real one had a broad, diffuse,
golden beard.  The imposter had
a dense, narrow one.

The real one was suicidal without
annual transplanting.  The imposter
seemed to survive anyway.

When I was co-chairing the ASI Plant
Sale in the early 80s, the JOPPA
PARROT sample we were able to
obtain all proved to be the imposter
and we concluded that the real =

JOPPA PARROT was probably no
longer extant.  I'd love to find out =

that we were wrong on that count
and someone, somewhere, still
grows it.

Sharon McAllister
73372.1745@compuserve.com
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