Re: Salvia major & grandiflora
- Subject: Re: Salvia major & grandiflora
- From: Richard Dufresne s*@infi.net
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:30:47 -0400
At 07:11 PM 9/10/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Richard - Many thanks for info. At least that narrows down the possibilities
>(working on the assumption that what I have is a 'real' - if out of date -
>S. major and not just somebody's slip of the labelling pen). And of those
>possibilities S. tomentosa and S. azurea might be the likeliest. It
>certainly isn't S. patens!
>
You can quickly determine whether the plant is Old or New World. The first
will most likely be a basal rosette, and the second grow from a stem coming
out of the ground without basal foliage. Not a hard and fast rule, but a
good start.
>I've taken the problem back to the donor, with the additon of your info.,
>and he's going to try to remember where *he* got the plant from, hence how
>the name, too, arrived. Well, that's what *ought* to happen. Whether it
>does... Even so.
I appreciate keepiong records on provenance. That info is as important as
the plant name with the author.
Richard F. Dufresne
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Greensboro, North Carolina 27406 USA
336-674-3105
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