Fritillaria flowering

Jane McGary janemcgary@earthlink.net
Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:06:19 PDT
At 09:29 AM 9/15/2003 +1000, Dirk wrote:
>Fritillaria eastwoodiae is flowering for me now and I have uploaded a few 
>pics to the wiki. There certainly is some wonderful variation in these 
>naturally occurring hybrids. Does anyone know if the name Fritillaria 
>phaeanthera is applicable to this species, as stated in the Fritillaria 
>book by Kevin Pratt and Michael Jefferson-Brown?

Like almost every other statement in said book, that is in error. F. 
phaeanthera is an invalid synonym for F. eastwoodiae.

Jane McGary


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