Hallo, Stranger
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Hallo, Stranger
- From: t*@eddy.u-net.com (Tim Longville)
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:12:59 GMT
With a tip of the hat to any M. Faithfull fans out there who
recognised the song title - and with thanks to the United Colours of
the Southern Hemisphere for the help with my previous query about
Aotus - here is yet another mystery:
A friend has just offered me seed of the Tasmanian Asteritrichion
discolor, which I gather has gone under a whole heap of other names
earlier. My friend's opinion (not unbiassed, since he must be about
the only person in the UK who grows it; certainly no UK nursery offers
it) is that this is a desirable shrub. I wondered what Oz/NZ/Tas
participants felt about it? Does it occur in S. Hemisphere gardens? If
so, cultivation procedures/garden situation? Hardiness levels in the
N. Hemisphere, would you guess? (I gather the seed I've got came from
1000+m on Mt Wellington so I'd have thought the results might well be
more or less hardy in mild UK gardens?) And, since I gather that the
female plant produces fairly uninteresting flowers and the male one
much showier ones, (a) is there any way to tell which is which BEFORE
flowering, (b), if not, how long before flowering?!
Tim Longville
