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Re: [SG] cimicifuga / Doll's Eyes?

hi Bobbie B.
        Sounds as though you may have Doll's Eyes or Actea pachypoda. Foliage
looks almost exactly like the Cimicifuga except for size in height and
spread. The blooms are like fuzzy bottle brushes and mature into seeds on
the end of stalks in a bunch at the end of the stem. Each seed will have a
waxy white berry with a dark purple-black spot. Thus the name Doll's Eyes.
Somewhat like the old turn of the century china doll heads. Keep an eye on
them and you will know for sure. If someone dug they before bloom the
confusion would be easy.
        Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com

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> From: MS ROBERTA M BROOKS <ZDST49A@PRODIGY.COM>
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SG] cimicifuga
> Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 7:21 PM
>
> Hi all
>
> Replying here about the cimicifuga.  I bought one several years ago
> and planted it next to a dark leaved tree to show up the contrast.
> It does.  And is in poor, sandy soil and has always done just fine.
> Never weakens or droops.  Of course it would probably do better in
> moist soil.....
>
> Then, I bought several C ramosa, same name as on the tag of the first
> plant (which has the candles) wholesale from someone who legally digs
> in the wild and propogates.  The foliage does look similar and had
> nice healthy clumps which got planted in very moist soil near a brook.
> ...but
> Blooms are airy, kinda like a froth.  no candles.  Do I have the
> right plant?  These are from New England.
> Wasted space, can't sell (planted 50) etc.  Could this be a kind of C
> or is it maybe another missnamed wild flower, like, Aruncus?
> I hate to get rid of it as the foliage is very nice, but also do not
> like to sell something that I do not know that I am unsure of
>
> any help out there?
>
> Bobbie B  in MA
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