Re: Seriously weird
- Subject: Re: Seriously weird
- From: T* &* M* R*
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 01:51:41 +1200
Einionygarddwr@aol.com wrote:
>
> Thanks for the information. I'm intrigued that Parsonsia is little
> known over
> here when it's so popular in NZ. I'm now looking forward to acquiring
> it even
> more!
>
> On Pseudopanax, & referring to a point Paul Spracklin makes in his
> posting on
> scheffleras, I've not visited Logan garden in SW Scotland since this
> last,
> colder-than-average winter, but there was a very sizeable specimen of
> Pseudopanax arboreus growing at the top of the steps on their castle
> terrace.
> An incredibly handsome foliage plant and totally different to the
> ferox/chathamicus/crassifolius alliance. Incidentally, here in the UK
> these
> plants have only recently become popular, so all the ones I've seen
> have
> juvenile foliage. What are they like in maturity? - I know they're
> totally
> different in appearance then.
>
Einion
The adult foiiage is not spectacular. Perhaps one might describe it as
smallish Pseudopanax type and dark green in colour. However the shape is
the distinctive bit, as they always look as though they have been
carefully toped with a neatly-rounded head on top of a quite tall sturdy
stem. They are so distinctive that one could not mistake them for
anything else.
They do however occasionally produce basal suckers and these always
revert to the juvernile foliage - a most odd effect.
Moira
--
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand, SW Pacific. 12 hours ahead of Greenwich Time
