RE: Oddities

Dear Tim,
 
Here is some information about #2: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/lut2/bejaria_aestuans.html .  The E shown at cultivation is for RBG Edinburgh.  To get to the references, you have to go the page at lut2.
 
Joan DeFato

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Longville [mailto:tim.longville@BTinternet.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:22 AM
To: medit-plants
Subject: Oddities

Here I come on the hunt for information again, about a couple more oddities and obscurities. All I've found via the Web is confirmation that the plants in fact exist, the names are - or have been - real names.
 
What horticulturally useful information I *do* have about them comes from a splendid old book, Winter Blossoms from the Outdoor Garden, written and illustrated by A.W. Darnell and published (Reeve & Co, London) in 1926. (Large chunks of the book's text are in fact available on the Web, from the non-profit-making library-and-librarian-helping organisation, OCLC, based in Dublin, Ohio.)
 
2. Befaria coarctata (syn Bejaria coarctata) (Darnell in fact has coartata, not coarctata, but I think that's just a misprint; at least, I can't find any trace of it as a name). This is a dwarf shrub from the Peruvian Andes, a rhododendron relative, with pale rose coloured flowers streaked, as Darnell puts it (a solemn buttoned-up old soul, our A.W., not inclined to slanginess) 'with a deeper tint of the same hue.' It flowers profusely ('covers itself with blossoms,' says AWD) when only a foot high, only grows to a couple of feet or so anyway (useful attribute for someone with a small garden, like mine), and was when AWD wrote grown successfully outdoors in the south and west of the UK. No longer...
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