Slightly OT Re: Terminology question
Joe G via pbs (Sun, 19 Jul 2020 09:58:45 PDT)

Possibly off-topic: I'm making labels for plants I received as Lessertia
montana seeds from Silverhill. A taxonomic revision sinks the more tender
Sutherlandia frutescens (and its entire genus) into Lessertia, and lumps L.
montana into L. frutescens (Manning, 2015?). I also grow the
distinctive/different plant which was previously called Sutherlandia
frutescens, which doesn't make any underground storage organs for me.
Phylogeny, amirite?

Is there a good way to keep these plants distinctly labeled while keeping
their taxonomy correct? Is this an appropriate usage of the old binomial,
paired with "Hort.", subordinate to the new name (or in parentheses, maybe)?

Just learned about geoxyles and "underground forests" today while falling
down a tangentially related wikipedia & SANBI wormhole. Has anyone here
tried growing Combretum platypetalum in temperate areas with a heavy winter
mulch?

-Joe in Southwest Virginia, stalling any way I can while the heat index
shoots into the triple digits.
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