Re: Pandanus
- Subject: Re: Pandanus
- From: T* &* M* R*
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:46:12 +1300
Dave Poole wrote:
>
> Moira wrote:
>
> >Another member of the Pandanceae is Freyncintia of which F banksii
> >(Kiekie) is named as "a hothouse plant from NZ" (This is British
> >publication speaking).
>
> Now play fair Moira :) That book must have a good few years old when
> almost everyone looked at a single, supposedly tropical species in a
> genus and then ascribed its requirements to all other members. Or,
> the info could have been plagiarised from old publications by some
> wanna bee, 'expert exotics writer' (as is so often the case nowadays).
> Its amazing how old dud info from Sander's Encyclopaedia of Gardening
> and the like, still crops up in 'new' books from time to time!
Don't shoot the messenger Dave. I was only reporting !!!
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand, SW Pacific. 12 hours ahead of Greenwich Time
