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Re: [SG] Variegated Solomon's Seal

-----Original Message-----
From: Clyde Crockett <CCREDUX@AOL.COM>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Friday, August 07, 1998 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [SG] Variegated Solomon's Seal


>In a message dated 8/7/1998 9:25:42 PM Central Daylight Time,
>matttrahan@ECSU.CAMPUS.MCI.NET writes:
>
><< Polygonatum odoratum is a species native to Russia and Japan.
> >The variegated types are treated as cultivars in most of the books I have
> >read.
> >So, Sheila is right again, methinks.( I count 4 variegated cultivars of
it.)
> >
> >Clyde Crockett
>
> Hi Clyde,
>  Could you describe the four variegated cultivars? More specifically, is
> there a bright white one? >>
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>Hi Matt:
>I can only tell you of the ones I grow=='Flore Pleno' (double
flowers--greener
>than the species); 'Gilt Edge' (leaves have a slight gold margin ---flowers
>are same as species);'Grace Barker' (white striped leaves); and, this may
be
>the one you are asking about,--- 'Variegatum' ( white flowers. Leaves have
a
>white margin.)
>
>Clyde Crockett z5
>
Clyde and others,

There are two available in the trade here in Ontario under the names  P.
Falcatum variegatum and P. multiflorum variegatum.  Are these equivalent to
your nomenclature?

Bob L
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