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Jane McGary (Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:31:23 PST)

Just a couple of questions and comments about Nhu's very helpful
digest of additions to the wiki:

Eucomis comosa 'Sparkling Burgundy' - a very well-known cultivar but for

Isn't there some controversy about the identity of plants being sold
under this name? I have two purple-leaf, large, presumably hybrid
forms, one bought under the name and another given me by a nurseryman
who wasn't sure the name was properly applied.

Watch out for this one, it is a rampant self-seeder, though pretty
and a good cut flower.

I have this spelled "diabloense" -- which is correct?

Don't let this one get loose either.

Canarina canariensis

How cold have any of you let this Canarina get? After seeing it in
Terry Laskiewicz's greenhouse in a very large pot, I decided I was
torturing mine in a gallon pot and put it in the bulb house, where
it's in growth, but I'm afraid it will freeze to death.

This species (seed from cultivated plants around 1990) made itself
happily at home, seeding freely in the bulb frames, and I have it
flowering outdoors in Portland now. Obviously one of those narrow
endemics that are just waiting to get out into the wider world.

Jane McGary
Portland, Oregon, USA