Re: RE: Hyb-sweerti

I must be getting adled in my old age, because I am not sure where Anner and David are disagreeing. I would like to make one correction to Davids statement. He did a good job of talking about the botanical code but I think he implied something that is not true of the horticultural code. Many people think of cultivars as clones. According to the Hort. Code a cultivar can be a clone or a botanical form, or a botanical variety, or even a whole species. There was a large discussion of this in Taxon about 4 years ago. Another point that many people do not realize is that according to the Horticultural code a cultivar is defined by its description. If two distinct plants still fit the same description technically they can be called the same cultivar name. If a cultivar goes extinct it can be recreated if the new plant fits the old description. This argues for better descriptions and a good deal of restraint. I doubt that many Iris growers would accept the idea that a cultivar was not a
 clone.

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