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Re: Montinia caryophyllacea (HELP!)

Hortus III, 1976 edition does not list it...sorry.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
Editor:  Gardening in Shade
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> From: Philip Stevens <pstevens@cats.ucsc.edu>
> Subject: Montinia caryophyllacea (HELP!)
> Date: Thursday, March 13, 1997 11:43 PM
> 
> A while back I wrote to the list asking for any information anyone might
be
> able to supply about Montinia caryophyllacea, for which I had been given
> seeds.  I sowed 12 of them in a 3" pot of commercial seed compost with a
> light covering of vermiculite, put them under fluorescent lights at 70F,
> and two of them have come up.  So now I have seedlings, but of what?  I
> know nothing at all about this plant.  I'm told it might be from southern
> Africa.  A check of the Kew website tells me that it's in the
Montiniaceae
> family -- as if that's much help, never heard of any of the three or four
> genera in the family. It's not in the new RHS Dictionary. Would someone
out
> there who has a copy of Hortus Third mind taking a look to see if it's
> listed? I'd just like to know what I'm getting in to here.
> 
> Thanks.
>
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