Salvia Names

Rich - Is it true that S. ambigens is now, as a name, defunct? And
plants previously known as such should now be absorbed into S.
guaranitica? That's what I've just been told - though looking at
things under those two names in a friend's garden the other day it was
hard to believe. A lot of variation in the wild from collections from
different places?? 

The ex-ambigens I saw in the aforementioned garden had made a
monstrous, sturdy, woody, not at all loose or floppy creature, to a
good 8' x 4'. The guaranitica was what you'd expect, both in its
virtues and its uncorsetted vices - and much, much smaller. These are
the same plant?? If we have to call'em by the same species name, to
keep the taxonomists quiet, surely a couple or three 'form' names
might make sense? Or do you think my friend has been sold a
nomenclatural pup with his woody monster? (I should be able to provide
an image of it in a week or two. I left him with a firm order to take
photographs.)


Tim Longville
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