Leucojum fontianum/tingitanum (again!)
Rodger Whitlock (Sun, 04 Apr 2004 05:30:45 PDT)
On 1 Apr 04 at 4:16, Pascal Vigneron wrote:
Brian Mathew in the key in his 1987 "The Smaller Bulbs" distinguishes
L. fontianum from L. tingitanum
Five years later, in the Kew Magazine (Curtis Botanical Magazine)
vol. 9 Part 4 page 156-160, Brian Mathew write "Having compared
Baker's specimen of L. tingitanum with fresh material [...] in my
opinion, L. tingitanum Baker should be accepted as the correct name
for this interesting spring-flowering species, with L. fontianum
reduced to synonymy."
Aha! At last!
I wonder if he looked at Maire's specimen of L. "fontianum".
At any rate, it's back outside to change the name on the label for
the fourth time in two weeks.
Thank you very much for supplying this information.
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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
on beautiful Vancouver Island