Re: Pulmonaria
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- Subject: Re: Pulmonaria
- From: b*@cuci.nl (Roger Bastin)
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 18:26:18 +0100
>Plants for shade
>PULMONARIA
A very interesting posting of wich I couldn't find enough in this group.
Treating a whole genus is the most clearyfying way to compare and
understand.
However before I correct names in my database it would be nice if it were
more clear where this information came from. I have many books that treat
the genus only few can be considered scientifically correct.
So, who wrote this? Is this the latest scientific stadard or did this come
from a book that copied opinions from other books? I am not a botanist but
a nursery owner that puts pherhaps to much emphasis on correctly naming
plants. To my knowledge there is some confusion about wich species
cultivars belong to.
For example these are the names I use (known to be synonyms):
Pulmonaria angustifolia 'Beth Blue'
Pulmonaria angustifolia 'Munstead Blue'
Pulmonaria montana 'Mrs Kittle' (P. mollis 'Mrs Kittle' / P. saccharata
'Mrs Kittle')
Pulmonaria officinalis 'Cambridge Blue' (P. saccharata 'Cambridge Blue')
Pulmonaria officinalis 'Sissinghurst White' (P. saccharata 'Sissinghurst White')
Pulmonaria 'Roy Davidson'
Pulmonaria rubra 'Redstart' (P. montana 'Redstart')
Pulmonaria saccharata 'Dora Bielefeld'
Pulmonaria saccharata 'Leopard'
Pulmonaria saccharata 'Mrs Moon' (P. picta 'Mrs Moon')
Pulmonaria villarsae 'Margery Fish' (P. saccharata 'Margery Fish'
/P.vallarsae 'Margery Fish')
I write this just because I'm curious to find out wether 'Sissinghurst
white is officinalis or saccharata.
Here in the Netherlands a very nice new complete silver cultivar has arized
under the name 'Majeste' the leaves are long and of the best silver I have
seen for Pulmonaria, it is a smashing plant.
>P. officinalis = "Common Lungwort" "Jerusalem Cow-Slip"
>Leaves heart shaped at the base roughly hairy , white spotted most of the
>time.
>Flowers Pink then turning purplish-blue. Native from Holland to Sweden down to
>Italy and to Bulgaria. Found growing in moist some what peaty soils in mixed
>deciduous woods.
>Var. Immaculata = does not have spots.
>Cult. ëAlba' = has white flowers.
>These plants were once used medicinally to treat lung problems thus the name
>Pulmonaria and lungwort. The plants were said to look like lungs so logically
>they must be for lung problems- or so it was said in late medieval times.
>
>P. rubra = ROO-bruh "Red Lungwort"
>leaves 5-7 inches long. Plants tall from 12-27 inches with somewhat lax stems
>with coral-red flowers. Plants form scattered clumps with some what ever green
>unspotted leaves. Leaves are pointed and some what diamond shaped, stems and
>leaves very hairy. Long blooming period in the spring. Native in South East
>Europe ( Carpathian and Balkan Mts). Zones (4)5-8
>VAR. Albocorollata syn. Alba = has white flowers and grows about 10 to 12
>inches tall.
>
>P. saccharata = sah-kah-RAH-tuh "Bethlehem Sage" The most commonly grown
>lungwort with more or less evergreen leaves medium green with white spots that
>over lap some what. Leaves 8- 12 inches long and 5-8 inches wide and hairy.
>Stem leaves large. Blooming in early spring- for me this is the first plant to
>bloom. Flower buds purple-violet to reddish purple opening to flower blue-
>violet. Native from France to Italy. Zones 4-8
>
>ëMrs Moon' = large leaves and pink buds and flowers turning to blue.
>ëJanet Fisk' = has large very nicely spotted leaves and lavender-pink flowers.
>ëSissinghurst White' = has white flowers on plants about the size of Mrs Moon,
>but the spots on the leaves are more showy.
>
>P. stiriaca = From the east Alps comes this attractive plant with rounded,
>splotched white leaves.
> Plants with blue flowers blooming in April and May. Stems 10-15 inches tall
>and upright.
>
>P. vallarsae = Clump forming deciduous plants with dark green wavy marginated
>leaves.
> Leaves smaller than most Pulmonaria growing to 8 inches in length and having
>greenish to whitish spots. Plants blooming in early spring with violet flowers
>turning purple with age.
>Plants 5-13 inches in height. Zones? 6-8.
>Here is a check list of the cultivars that are grown.
>
>Pulmonaria angustifolia ëAlba'
>Pulmonaria angustifolia ëAzurea'
>Pulmonaria angustifolia ëBeth's Pink'
>Pulmonaria 'Apple Frost'
>Pulmonaria ëBaby Blue'
>Pulmonaria 'Berries and Cream'
>Pulmonaria 'Bertram Anderson'
>Pulmonaria ëBielfeld'
>Pulmonaria ëBlaues Meer'
>Pulmonaria ëBlue Ensign'
>Pulmonaria ëBowle's Red'
>Pulmonaria ëBritish Sterling'
>Pulmonaria ëCambridge Blue'
>Pulmonaria 'Coral Springs'
>Pulmonaria ëDora Bielefeld'
>Pulmonaria 'Excalibur' PP#8958
>Pulmonaria ëFruhlingshimmel' what is that?
>Pulmonaria ëJanet Fisk'
>Pulmonaria ëJohnson's Blue'
>Pulmonaria ëLeopard'
>Pulmonaria ëLewis Palmer'
>Pulmonaria 'Little Star'
>Pulmonaria longifolia ssp. cevennensis
>Pulmonaria ëMargery Fish'
>Pulmonaria ëMawson's Variety'
>Pulmonaria 'Milky Way'
>Pulmonaria ëMunstead Blue'
>Pulmonaria ëMrs Moon'
>Pulmonaria officinalis Var. Immaculata
>Pulmonaria officinalis ëAlba'
>Pulmonaria ëPaul Aden'
>Pulmonaria ëPierre's Pure Pink'
>Pulmonaria ëPink Dawn'
>Pulmonaria 'Raspberry Splash' PPAF
>Pulmonaria 'Regal Ruffles'
>Pulmonaria 'Roy Davidson
>Pulmonaria rubra 'Aldocorolla'
>Pulmonaria rubra ëBarfeild Pink'
>Pulmonaria rubra 'David Ward'
>Pulmonaria rubra 'Redstart'
>Pulmonaria 'Silverlance'
>Pulmonaria ëSilver Streamer's'
>Pulmonaria ëSissinghurst White'
>Pulmonaria ëSmoky Blue'
>Pulmonaria ëSnowy Owl'
>Pulmonaria 'Spilled Milk'
>Pulmonaria 'Victorian Brooch' PPAF
>Pulmonaria 'White Wings'
Roger Bastin,
Kruidenkwekerij, V.O.F. Roger & Linda Bastin
Herbs, fragrant plants and uncommon plants nursery
http://www.cuci.nl/~bastinkk/
Trichterweg 148a, 6446 AT Brunssum, Nederland,
Tel.: **31-45-5231475, Email; bastinkk@cuci.nl
Zone 8
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