Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Hostas

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• Subject: Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Hostas
• From: R* L* <r*@NETSYNC.NET>
• Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:02:00 -0500
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At 01:49 PM 2/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
> Seboldi Tenryu
>
>Ran, you were writing about the above hosta.  How is it different from the
>'Tenryu' (large, blue, vase-shaped variety) that is offered in a few
>catalogues?  Do they come from a common source, or are they completely
>different?  Is one a species and the other a cultivar, etc.?
>
>Thanks to all.
>
>Sheila Smith
>mikecook@pipeline.com
>Z 5/6
>******************
Shila:
I should have called it Seboldiana>Tenryu.  There are several Hostas from
Japan, from the area of the Tenryu river , with the word tenryu in their
name.  It is a practice with the Japanese to use the location where the
plant is found, as part of the name.  This does cause some coufusion, and I
think , as we (properly) use more of the established Japanese names for
existing plants, all of us are giong to have to learn more about how this
wotks.  In this case Seboldiana Tenryu  is a Seboldiana type. and we
believe that The plant known as Tenryu (I oun half of the original plant)
Is really a nigrescens type.  There will be more to this story as time goes
on, but that is all thet has devloped so far.
Ran Lydell
Eagle Bay Hosta Gardens
10749  Bennett Rd.
Dunkirk,  NY  14048

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