Re: "subshrub"
- Subject: Re: "subshrub"
- From: J* M*
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 23:28:02 -0700
> In my last post, I was made to realilze that I used a
> term with which many gardeners aren't familiar.
>
> It's "subshrub".
>
> I'm sure it's not a botanical appropriate term but
> it's a term I found probably coined by an old
> horticulturist whose name I can't remember.
Joe,
"Subshrub" is a valid and long-recognized botanical-phytological term. My
Collegiate Dictionary of Botany, by Delbert Schwartz, New York: Ronald
Press, 1971, defines it as:
subshrub. An undershrub or small shrub which may have partially herbaceous
stems.
John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9 Sunset zones 21/23
