Re: Duranta repens? erecta?
- Subject: Re: Duranta repens? erecta?
- From: John MacGregor j*@earthlink.net
- Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 09:24:04 -0800
on 11/8/02 3:06 PM, DeFato, Joan at joan.defato@arboretum.org wrote:
> There is an article in Kew Bulletin 39:803-4, 1984, by Gail L. R. Bromley
> with the title "Duranta repens versus D. erecta (Verbenaceae)". The summary
> says, "A study of botanical literature has led to the confirmation that the
> commonly cultivated plant known as Duranta repens L. to many botanists
> should be called D. erecta L. [botanical names in italics]
>
> Joan DeFato
> Plant Science Library
> The Arboretum of Los Angeles County
> 301 North Baldwin Avenue
> Arcadia, CA 91007-2697
> Phone: (626) 821-3213 Fax: (626) 445-1217
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Joan,
Would you please send me a copy of this article?
The D. repens-D. erecta confusion is not the only question extant regarding
Duranta. The latest Sunset Western Garden book indicates that the plant
that has long been known in California as Duranta repens, with larger
flowerss and larger leaves, is actually D. stenostachya (the Duranta entry
is not one of the ones I wrote). I find this extremely confusing, but I
have not succeeded in finding any reliable information on the web or in
books available to me that would help me to sort this out. I have seen
many new cultivars of Duranta lately in nurseries (even more on the
internet, with larger, ruffled flowers and multiple colors--especially in
Japan), and I am anxious to put correct names on them. Are there any
articles that deal with multiple species of Duranta? Can you help?
John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9 Sunset zones 21/23
