RE: On line info on what's being grown at LA County Arboretum and/or Huntington
- Subject: RE: On line info on what's being grown at LA County Arboretum and/or Huntington
- From: J* D*
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:18:19 -0800 (PST)
Buckinghamia celsissima is growing at Strybing, a
young tree of perhaps 3-5 feet in height, if i
remember correctly.
-Jason
--- david feix <davidfeix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Joan,
>
> Since you seem to be able to find anything on the
> web,
> I thought I would ask you if either the LA County
> Arboretum, The Huntington Botanic Garden, Quail
> Botanic Gardens have searchable data bases on line
> of
> all plants in their collections which can be looked
> at
> by the general public? I have yet to find the
> equivalent for the local Strybing, UC Berkeley and
> UC
> Santa Cruz Botanic Gardens. (The one reference I
> have
> of species being grown at Strybing is sadly out of
> date, last revised in 1987).
>
> The reason I ask, is I'd like to know if either
> Xanthostemon chrysantus-Golden Penda, or The
> Proteaceae Buckinghamia celsissima are being grown
> down south? Both come from the rainforest areas of
> Queensland, Australia, and I recently received fresh
> seed of both. I tried doing a google search for
> each
> focusing on those being grown in the USA, and only
> turned up one reference for a nursery in Homestead,
> Florida. They both look to be beautiful trees that
> might also do well in California, but I haven't been
> able to turn up any local information on them.
>
> TIA,
> David Feix
>
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