to Cultivar or not to Cultivar?
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Photos of random cultivars, please help identify
Comments (6)The Nootka might have been traded as 'Glauca'. It's said to be a type that pops up in seed beds, with the result that multiple different clones will probably have been circulated over time. Plants I've seen under the name here have had the same foliage structure while not being terribly more blue than the one shown. Based on how it appears here plant you are asking about could also just be an unselected seedling....See MoreCultivars...
Comments (8)I know that kellyknits had one that she had tentatively labeled as Grey Ghost. It's supposed to have grey flecking that's so dense the leaves appear almost solidly silver-grey. Here's a picture of Kelly's plant. I thought someone else had it, too - maybe they will speak up. I received one from David called carnosa Lime Green* that has really taken off for me lately, so I'm hoping it will bloom soon and I can find out what that's all about. There's a photo of these green blooms here. ** or perhaps Cream One? LOL This post was edited by greedyghost on Thu, May 30, 13 at 17:14...See MoreCultivars versus Non-cultivars
Comments (6)To add a bit to the good info above; you may well know this beenature, but in case not, cloning, or asexual propagation is rather simple, not neccessarily a lab endeavor. Pieces of the desired plants are taken; these could be herbaceous top growth cuttiings, root cuttings, or simple division of clumps. In essence, it is the *same* plant propagated, and all of these methods will result in a plant identical to the original plant. For a cultivar, selected for desirable traits, this is the way to go. Mass propagation is attained by tissue culture, where small bits of plants are grown in laboratory conditions. Yep, they are all clones, but ya gotta love how plants will grow from cut off bits of themselves. Thanks be humans can't do the same! It'd be a mighty crowded world... In getting seed true to the cultivar, read cultivar as "particular individual". If it's a selection from a native population, seed may come true depending on isolation from other individuals of the species . With Joe Pye, I'd doubt it, as the major pollinators, butterflies, can travel great distance, and are likely to bring in other Joe Pye pollen, resulting in natural hybrids. They may or may not exhibit traits of parent plants, or a lovely crossing of both, jes like all us American mutts do....See MoreHow to Name a Plant - for Matt and anyone else interested
Comments (3)And using binomial nomeclature is the ONLY way to be certain two people are, indeed, talking about the same plant!...See Moretuben
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