RE: Swan River Daisy
- To: Mediterranean plant list <m*@ucdavis.edu>, "'j*@earthlink.net'" <j*@earthlink.net>
- Subject: RE: Swan River Daisy
- From: "* R* <R*@sp.agric.wa.gov.au>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 07:16:38 +0800
From the Australian Plant name Index
see: gopher://155.187.10.12:4320/7apnitaxon
Brachyscome Cass. (as `Brachycome')
or Missouri Botanic Gardens
on: http://mobot.mobot.org/Pick/Search/pick.html
Brachyscome Cass.
Allen is right, and the use of Brachycome is popular enough to
be confirmed as a usual application, but not correct.
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> From: Janet Smithen
> Reply To: jansmithen@earthlink.net
> Sent: Monday, 22 February 1999 5:01 AM
> To: Mediterranean plant list
> Subject: Swan River Daisy
>
> Recently I read an article by Allen Lacy (popular American garden
> writer) discussing the little plant, Swan River Daisy. We've all called
> it Brachycome for so long. He maintains the correct spelling is
> Brachyscome, and it is pronounced bra-KISS-co-may.
> There's alot of hybridizing and selecting going on with this genus
> in the trade today. Of course, the named selections are patented. But I
> think we'll see alot of them this year in the nurseries here. A great
> plant, blooms almost all year as it scrambles around between other
> plants or spills out of containers.
> I'd like to know from our Australian and New Zealand members which
> spelling/pronunciation is correct, before I go passing it along to
> classes.
> Thanks, Jan
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> California Arboretum Foundation
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> Sunset zone : 19
> USDA zone : 10
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