Re: Strange Plant
- To: "m*@ucdavis.edu"
- Subject: Re: Strange Plant
- From: L* I*
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:00:54 -0700 (PDT)
Charles,
when you get a positive identification, please post to the group. I am
dying to know what this plant could be. This is like reading a mystery
novel with the last chapter missing.
Angela
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Charles Dills wrote:
> Loretta, I have had three replies so far. If I get more I will forward them to you.-
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> original message:---------------->
> Now here's something for all you experts. I have no idea why
> she contacted me because this sounds like a plant from Mars! But I'm
> looking forward to what I hope is a flood of conjectures and maybe
> even a positive ID!! ---Chas
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> Loretta, 5/14/00
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> Back east (NYC) "Live Forever" referred to Hylotelephium varieties in my
> childhood (AKA Sedum spectabile) while sempervivums were always called "Hens
> and Chicks". I've never heard of this inflation trick but shall try it in the
> morning.
>
> By the way in certain parts of the mid-west "Live Forevers" were known
> instead as "Never Dies". This is a graphic example of why common names are
> all but useless and we should all try to keep up on proper botanical
> nomenclature, learning how to spell a plant's name even if we're unsure of
> the pronunciation.
>
> Michael D. Barclay, Really Special Plants & Gardens
> Cal Hort Council Lifetime Memeber of the American Rhododendron Soc.
> Speaker for the ARS Speakere's Bureau
> Berkeley, CA USDA 9+/10 Sunset 16/17
> Growing 2,000 species and varieties of plants 15 miles from the Golden
> Gate.
> Designer/Contractor/Educator
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> From: "Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr@email.msn.com>
> To: <cdills@fix.net>, <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
> Cc: <lorsmith@shianet.org>
> Subject: Re: Strange Plant!!!
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 05:04:19 -0700
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> I'm nowhere near an expert, but even an expert would have to have
> some idea of :
>
> Where does this plant grow - in its natural state, not as a houseplant -
> does it grow in Michigan ?
>
> How tall does it grow ? Does it have flowers ? What kind - single
> or in "bunches" ? How many petals ? How are the leaves attached
> to the plant ? Are the leaves "hairy" or smooth ? Do they have
> rounded edges or are the edges jagged (serrated) ?
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> Is it used any other way ?
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> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:44:42 -0700
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> To: cdills@fix.net
> From: Jane Reese <jreese@silcom.com>
> Subject: Re: Strange Plant!!!
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> My children did the 'blow up the leaf' trick with plain old jade
> plant (Crassula arborescens) that grows in abundance here. It
> probably would work with a variety of succulent leaves. 'Live
> for-ever' gets applied to various succulents, locally to Dudleya
> species.
>
> Jane
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