Re: Solvia?
Tim, Cant even get that right: it should have been Pterosperma.
Peter L.
Peter E Lewis wrote:
>
> Tim,
> Maybe I can get something right.
> Your plant would seem to be Soliva pterpsperma, known as the jo-jo weed
> in South America, and also known as a troublesome weed in Australia,
> California etc.
> You will find it in Mabberley, The Plant Book.
> Best wishes if you dont sow it.
> Peter Lewis, Cambridge, UK.
>
> Tim Longville wrote:
> >
> > This is hardly a Mediterrranean query in any strict sense but maybe
> > somebody can help with it - perhaps one of our Aussie members or Nick
> > Turland if he's listening.
> >
> > I've grown a plant which came to me as Solvia pterspernum (sic). It
> > came as seed, the seed came, via a UK friend, from Australia, and the
> > Australian friend who grew it there said that it was originally a S.
> > American and he thought a Brazilian plant.
> >
> > I need to check out its name and I've got two problems.
> >
> > One, I can't find any info. even about the genus. Anybody able to
> > help? It doesn't figure on the Tropicos database.
> >
> > Two, the species name doesn't seem to make sense, according to
> > Stearn's Botanical Latin. What could -spernum mean? At the moment I'm
> > working on the assumption that what I have is a series of
> > transcription errors leading back to what was originally
> > pter(o)sperM... (ie, with winged seeds) being thus distorted. Given
> > Solvia as the genus name, though, wouldn't the termination be -spermA
> > rather than spermUM?
> >
> > TIA to anyone who can rescue me from this teasing little puzzle.
> >
> > Tim
> > Solway Coast UK
> > mild moist cool, winter minima c. -3C
> > but at the moment radiant autumn and everything thinking we're back in
> > late spring/early summer - ceanothus and callistemon and clematis all
> > reflowering...
> >
> > Tim Longville
