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Request for info on SC violets

I am forwarding this from Ray Collett, former head of the UCSC Arboretum:   r*@cruzio.com
Bill Grant
 
Subject: request for info on SC violets


The Laguna Creek (or Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve) form of the Santa Cruz Mountains violet is currently producing a few semi-chasmogamous flowers. It can be seen in the JPG that the fuzzy bractlets are far removed from the flowers and that the stems are complicated. A further suggestion that the various Santa Cruz Mountains violets are all of the same kind of animal is that even semi-chasmogamous flowers are fragrant.

It has been suggested that Santa Cruz Mountains violets are planted and are the work of an unknown hybridist. However, what manner of hybridist would spread such a shy-flowering violet around, especially, in places where no one would see it?

Does anyone know of anyone who might know about occurrences of Santa Cruz Mountains violets in places other than (1) east of Boulder Creek, (2) the vicinity of the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve, (3) UCSC?
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