Re: Erica canaliculata variety/subspecies?

Sounds as though it might be a garbled version of 'Boscaweniana' after the
Cornish name Boscawen -- both a surname and a place name.

Only problem is, there seems to no such plant name name as 'Boscaweniana',
nor 'Boscameniana', nor 'Boscomeniana', judging from Google search results.
But 'Boscawenii' turned up cultivar names in Hebe and Leptospermum.

Nothing either in the RHS Plant Finder
(http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantfinder.asp), which has 600
entries under Erica.

In fact E. canaliculata (note spelling!) seems to be one of the few ericas
with no cultivars listed.

There is no reference to any specific or infraspecific Erica name starting
with bosc in IPNI (International Plant Names Index - see
http://www.us.ipni.org/index.html). But that does not mean there is no such
published name, since Index Kewensis (IPNI's major source) did not list
infraspecific names until quite recent decades.

The Boscawen family were associated with the famous Cornish gardens
Tregothnan and Ludgvan. See http://www.tregothnan.co.uk/visits_history.htm.

Tony Rodd
Sydney, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Seals" <gardenguru@yahoo.com>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 7:21 AM
Subject: Erica canaliculata variety/subspecies?


> Posted for a friend:
>
> "... a question as to the spelling of a variety of
> Erica caniculata.  An English friend of his is in the
> process of doing some writing on the subject.  The
> variety is E. caniculata var. boscameniana.  The
> question is whether it is spelled boscAmeniana or
> boscOmeniana.  ...
>
> ... would greatly appreciate information any of you
> might have."
>
> Joe
>
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