On 6 Jun 2010, at 12:17, J. Agoston wrote: > I have waited 7 years for this! Today my first, one and only Codonopsis > started to bloom. I received the seeds a without epitheton. Can somebody > help with the ID, please? > > The link: > http://picasaweb.google.hu/agoston.janos123/… It's probably Codonopsis clematidea, the most commonly grown species, and the one that is sent to exchanges under the name of every other species in the genus. Some years ago, someone (Christopher Grey-Wilson, perhaps) acquired Codonopsis seed from all available sources, grew them to flowering, and then properly identified them. IIRC, the vast majority were C. clematidea, and seeds purporting to be of the less common species were rarely true to name. I'm not sure where I read this account; perhaps Alpine-L in its Harry Dewey days, or in the AGS or SRGC journal. Sorry to be so vague about the facts, but it's been a while. What has stuck with me was the conclusion that most codonopsis in cultivation, whatever name they are grown under, are actually C. clematidea. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island http://maps.google.ca/maps/…