Manfreda question
Jim McKenney (Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:17:11 PDT)

I'm glad to see that Dennis is keeping the Manfreda ball rolling.

I have a question for those with more experience with this group. Years ago
in a local planting here in the Washington, D.C. area I saw a nice thick
clump of what I took to be Manfreda virginica. They were labeled Manfreda
virginica. The plants were very robust, bigger than the Manfreda virginica I
grow in my garden. From memory I remember the leaves being easily over a
foot long and several inches wide.

And there was this about the leaves: they had distinctly rippled, wavy
margins.

I saw the plants in mid-May.

Are there especially robust forms of Manfreda virginica with leaves with
wavy margins? Or was I seeing one of the TexMex species?

Jim McKenney
Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where we're still in the
pressure cooker.