RE: Hallo, Stranger
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu, "'t*@eddy.u-net.com'" <t*@eddy.u-net.com>
- Subject: RE: Hallo, Stranger
- From: "* R* <r*@agric.wa.gov.au>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 07:20:55 +0800
Hi Tim,
Asterotrichion discolor (slightly different to spelling supplied, but I
found it)
Native to Tassie and also grown in the Hobart, Sydney and Canberra botanic
gardens. Must have some qualities as a display sp. if grown in several BG's
Common name is Currajong
flowers are small females slightly larger than male
10mmm in total (less than half an inch) cream-white
in short racemes or panicles.
No indication wether the sp. is dioecious or monoecious.
Time will tell I guess Tim.
Cheers, Rod
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Rod Randall
Weed Risk Assessment
Weed Science Group, Agriculture Western Australia
"I weed..."
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> From: tim@eddy.u-net.com
> Reply To: tim@eddy.u-net.com
> Sent: Friday, 16 April 1999 3:12 AM
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Hallo, Stranger
>
> 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
>
