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Comments (3)I got mine!! Now I see 18 more violets to add to my collection. Does the madness ever end? Things are starting to bloom here in North Carolina. Many of my plants are seed grown and this will be their first year to bloom. I'm just glad they survived last summers record breaking heat and drought....See Moreviola odorata vs. sororia identification
Comments (1)Hi ! You're right: the first bloom seems to be viola sororia and the second one is viola priceana :-) Not at all viola odorata anyway. All the best - Thierry :-)...See MoreAmerican Violet Society?
Comments (1)It's funny, but I could have sworn that I saw a reply from Gary to this message a month or two ago... anyway, have you tried posting your question here already? It may not be the Violet Society, but people do watch this forum from time to time, and some could help. I hope that the reply I thought I saw wasn't a hallucination! Stefan...See MoreOn the origin of the sweet-smelling Parma violet cultivars
Comments (8)Parma violets exotic ?!!! What do you mean exotic ?? I gonna try to make it easy in words: according to me (just a point of view, not a theory), at the begining a "crazy" violet appears with many petals (that's not new at all - you can find other violets making that kind of strange behaviour: viola orientalis, viola mandshurica etc). Normaly, that parma violet should have vanished by itself (don't forget it's mainly steril). But fortunalety someone paid attention to it and men decided to grow it. Tales (Bourbons, Turkey and so on) are just made for taking part of the mistery (there are many), not for being taken as truth. The point is to understand/discover what kind of violet became "crazy" (viola odorata, viola alba, viola suavis ?? Parma violets have been grown for so many years that many changes appeared ('de Toulouse' in France and 'D'udine' in Italy, which are supposed to be the same violet, are different now). Because of that, I guess it's not possible anymore to discover the original violet that became "nuts" ! Moreover, what does it mean "parma violets" ? There are many and the only thing in common is that they make many petals, that's all. We don't know much... All the best - Thierry :-)...See Morerosie
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