Date: 08 Jun 1998 13:23:17 +0100 From: Loyd Wix <Loyd.Wix@unilever.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1948$foo@default> Subject: More on P.grandiflora f. chionopetra
Paul,
there are perhaps a few other factors rather than just the
flower colour that needs to be taken into account. The white
flowered Irish plants occur together with the more typical
purplish flowered examples, so clearly there are no grounds
to elevate it to sub species level but merely describe it as
a form. As I mentioned in a previous posting there are other
examples of pale flowered P.grandiflora. P.grandiflora ssp
rosea is not found with the typical form, where as f.pallida
does occur along side the dark flowered plants. Pale
coloured plants exist else where in Eire but the point with
f.chionopetra is that the flowers are pure white. Over the
entire range of P.grandiflora such pure white plants are
certainly unusual and appear to be confined to that
particular area of Eire. Under these circumstances I would
think it odd for some one to report on the existence of such
plants without naming them as a form.
Whilst on the subject of P.grandiflora I was given some
plants late last year from the Rio Ara in Spain. Up until
flowering the plants are unremarkable, however the flower
colour is an odd reddish purple colour but certainly
P.grandiflora in form. After flowering the leaves become
larger with undulating margins and held semi erectly. These
longer leaves also take on a dark chocolate bronze colour.
Thus these are clearly not straight forward P.grandiflora,
and I suspect some P.longifolia influence in them. I would
be interested to hear if other people have encountered these
plants.
Kind regards
Loyd
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