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RE: Coincya

Val, I checked my lists and Coincya spp. don't appear as weedy in any of
my refs
but we won't go onti that arguement eh?   :-)

I did scam some data from a little book called "Crucifers of Great
Britain and Ireland"
by T.C.G. Rich,  BSBI Handbook N°6

Very Briefly it said for these two species.
  
Coincya monensis subsp. monensis
Isle of Man cabbage
"Isle of Man,Eng, Scot, rare in S Wales, absent from Ire???,  
" abundant on coast, open dunes, sandy shores, less frequent in fields,
hedgebanks near sea an endemic taxon confirmed to the W coast of
Britian"

Coincya monensis subsp recurvata
"Wallflower cabbbage, Tall wallflower cabbage"
"S Wales, Channel Islands, rare & scattered Eng, extinct Scot, & not
reliably recorded in Ire native S, SW Eur; introduced widely elsewhere
in Eur & N Amer"
"docks, waste ground, ballast heaps, sand dunes, roadsides, railways "


Coincya wrightii
Lundy cabbage
endemic to Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel  
"cliffs, open ground only 300 plants known on SE part of Lundy Island, &
is known nowhere esle in the world"

And a third in the US

Coincya cheiranthos  syn. Coincya monensis ssp. recurvata  
in the USA

Maybe worth keeping in  the pot for a while yet
cheers, rod


Rod Randall
Weed Risk Assessment
Weed Science Group, Agriculture Western Australia
Home Page  http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/progserv/plants/weeds/Weedsci.htm

             "I weed..."

> ----------
> From: 	val dennison
> Reply To: 	kelbaert@iol.ie
> Sent: 	Sunday, 14 June 1998 4:51 AM
> To: 	medit-plants
> Subject: 	Coincya
> 
> I think I may be about to make a drastic mistake. I aquired some seed
> from an association seed exchange, sowed it, potted on the seedlings,
> and generally pampered them for their appearance in a plant sale
> taking place next week. Try as I could, I could find no reference to
> this Coincya I have been tending so well. Until this evening when I
> checked it out in an internet search. I only know my plant as plain
> Cioncya but found C.rouy and C.monensis both in a noxious weed file.
> Although these plants had all this attention, I always felt a bit
> suspicious of their strong resemblance to hairy bitter cress , in
> fact, it could be an HBC big brother. So, what do I do, wait to see if
> anyone can allay my fears and tell me it is a very lovely benign
> relative,play safe and burn it, or give it the benefit of the doubt
> and let it loose into the unsuspecting Irish gardenscape.
> I await your decision.
> Tim, I can send you seeds, I know you were disappointed with the
> Weinmannia!
> Val Dennison
> 
> 
> 
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