Rodger Whitlock wrote: > My mystery plant has fairly wide leaves, but the flowers are > unmarked. If Brian Mathew's 1987 key is accurate, it's definitely L. > fontianum. I wonder which group the Kew experts would place it in > since it has the wide leaves of Leucoum sensu strictu and the > unmarked flowers of Acis. The leaves are best thought of as comparatively wide, when compared with the other members of Acis, not really so when compared with Leucojum. The two characters I mentioned are but two easily observed ones from a suite of differences, another being that Acis has solid scapes compared to hollow ones in Leucojum. > Also, does anyone know what the current thinking is on the > relationship of L. tingitanum and L. fontianum? Since Dolores et al. do not mention it I assume they treat it as a synonym of A. tingitana. > > Dr John M. Grimshaw Garden Manager, Colesbourne Gardens Gardens Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Tel. 01242 870567 Mobile 07 919 840 063 Fax (Estate Office) 01242 870541 Website: http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/