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Please ID This Mystery Plant
Hello everyone,
I saw these plants quite emaciated and being suffocated under my lilac bush 2 years ago. Unaware of what they were I dug them up in 3 clumps and re-planted them in a vacant space in the garden. Since then they have thrived. They flower in late summer/early fall and on a warm sunny day, the bees (of both the bumble and honey persuasions) are attracted in droves. However the mint is constantly vying for space. I don't know what this plant is. Neither does my Mom, the time-honoured gardner that she is. Can anyone help? Area is south Ontario Canada. Image at: http://home.ca.inter.net/~deniswb/Mystery.jpg Thanks in advance, Denny |
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You must be kidding.
Its Hylotelephium (formerly Sedum) 'Autumn Joy', a succulent garden hybrid widely grown in cultivation. "Nudest" wrote in message om... Hello everyone, I saw these plants quite emaciated and being suffocated under my lilac bush 2 years ago. Unaware of what they were I dug them up in 3 clumps and re-planted them in a vacant space in the garden. Since then they have thrived. They flower in late summer/early fall and on a warm sunny day, the bees (of both the bumble and honey persuasions) are attracted in droves. However the mint is constantly vying for space. I don't know what this plant is. Neither does my Mom, the time-honoured gardner that she is. Can anyone help? Area is south Ontario Canada. Image at: http://home.ca.inter.net/~deniswb/Mystery.jpg Thanks in advance, Denny |
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Użytkownik "Nudest" napisał w wiadomości om... | I don't know what this plant is. Image at: | | http://home.ca.inter.net/~deniswb/Mystery.jpg Surely it is Sedum spectabilis (stonecrop)? B. |
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It appears that "Hylotelephium" is a sub species of Sedum.and means
'spectacular woody plant'. The RHS plantfinder still refers you to sedum -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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No.
When Sedum section Telephium was raised to the rank of a separate genus, it was named Hylotelephium by H.Ohba in 1978 because the generic name Telephium was already in use for a completely different group of plants. RHS plantfinder is completely out-of-date for Sedum as well as many other genera of plants. It is not a reliable reference at all. "David Hill" wrote in message ... It appears that "Hylotelephium" is a sub species of Sedum.and means 'spectacular woody plant'. The RHS plantfinder still refers you to sedum -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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No. Look closer and you will see many differences.
Hylotelephium (formerly Sedum) spactabile has a flat-topped inflorescence and flowers with the stamens much longer than the petals. Also the leaves are flat with shallowly lobed leaves that are alternate, paired or in threes. The plants is Hylotelephium (formerly Sedum) 'Autumn Joy' which has rounded inflorescences and sterile flowers with stamens mostly absent or very short. Also the leaves are prominently lobed and shell-shaped cupped. "Basia Kulesz" wrote in message ... Użytkownik "Nudest" napisał w wiadomości om... | I don't know what this plant is. Image at: | | http://home.ca.inter.net/~deniswb/Mystery.jpg Surely it is Sedum spectabilis (stonecrop)? B. |
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I don't know what this plant is. Neither does my Mom, the
time-honoured gardner that she is. Can anyone help? Sedum 'Autumn Joy'? sed5555 |
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now called Hylotelephium 'Autumn Joy'
"Sed5555" wrote in message ... I don't know what this plant is. Neither does my Mom, the time-honoured gardner that she is. Can anyone help? Sedum 'Autumn Joy'? sed5555 |
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now called Hylotelephium 'Autumn Joy'
Why so it has. Thanks. sed5555 |
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Despite the fact that the average gardener has absolutely no idea why any
plant is so named the way it is, I will tell you why. Bottom line: Type species for genus Sedum L. is Sedum acre L. and is a dwarf evergreen perennial with connate kyphocarpic carpels. Genus Hylotelephium H.Ohba (formerly Sedum section Telephium) are deciduous perennials, usually with a tuberous rootstock, and with separate stipitate (slender stalked) carpels. It should be obvious that the growth form of Hylotelephium is very different from that of typical Sedum. Dissect the flowers and you will the differences between the two genera. "Sed5555" wrote in message ... now called Hylotelephium 'Autumn Joy' Why so it has. Thanks. sed5555 |
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"Cereus-validus" wrote in message m... Despite the fact that the average gardener has absolutely no idea why any plant is so named the way it is, I will tell you why. Bottom line: Type species for genus Sedum L. is Sedum acre L. and is a dwarf evergreen perennial with connate kyphocarpic carpels. Genus Hylotelephium H.Ohba (formerly Sedum section Telephium) are deciduous perennials, usually with a tuberous rootstock, and with separate stipitate (slender stalked) carpels. It should be obvious that the growth form of Hylotelephium is very different from that of typical Sedum. Dissect the flowers and you will the differences between the two genera. While this is all well and good in the interest of taxonomic accuracy, you will not find these plants in the commercial trade listed under this name, nor will you find Chamaecyparis nootkatensis listed as Xanocyparis, or Platycladus listed as Biota or seldom Cimicifuga listed as Actaea or even very often Clematis paniculata correctly labeled as C. terniflora. Old habits die hard. |
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You really shouldn't make excuses for the sorry state of horticultural
knowledge unless you are willing to accept the blame for it being so bad. Horticulture has long been only the idiot stepchild of botany when it should be applied botany. Most of the new gardening books are only lame rehashing of the older obsolete books with more pictures with little or no effort made to bring the information up-to-date. The commercial trade is in most cases even worse. They are just hustling plants with little or no regard for the plants being correctly named. Only the specialty nurseries make an effort to have plants with proper names. Even many of them are still using obsolete or fictitious names. There is the attitude in the trade that there is no money to be made in striving for accuracy nor does the public demand it. Actually correctly named and documented "heirloom" plants are much more valuable than mass produced garbage plants of dubious origin. "Pam - gardengal" wrote in message news:OEZ0d.178460$mD.2500@attbi_s02... "Cereus-validus" wrote in message m... Despite the fact that the average gardener has absolutely no idea why any plant is so named the way it is, I will tell you why. Bottom line: Type species for genus Sedum L. is Sedum acre L. and is a dwarf evergreen perennial with connate kyphocarpic carpels. Genus Hylotelephium H.Ohba (formerly Sedum section Telephium) are deciduous perennials, usually with a tuberous rootstock, and with separate stipitate (slender stalked) carpels. It should be obvious that the growth form of Hylotelephium is very different from that of typical Sedum. Dissect the flowers and you will the differences between the two genera. While this is all well and good in the interest of taxonomic accuracy, you will not find these plants in the commercial trade listed under this name, nor will you find Chamaecyparis nootkatensis listed as Xanocyparis, or Platycladus listed as Biota or seldom Cimicifuga listed as Actaea or even very often Clematis paniculata correctly labeled as C. terniflora. Old habits die hard. |
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In article ,
"Cereus-validus" wrote: You really shouldn't make excuses for the sorry state of horticultural knowledge unless you are willing to accept the blame for it being so bad. Horticulture has long been only the idiot stepchild of botany when it should be applied botany. Most of the new gardening books are only lame rehashing of the older obsolete books with more pictures with little or no effort made to bring the information up-to-date. The commercial trade is in most cases even worse. They are just hustling plants with little or no regard for the plants being correctly named. Only the specialty nurseries make an effort to have plants with proper names. Even many of them are still using obsolete or fictitious names. There is the attitude in the trade that there is no money to be made in striving for accuracy nor does the public demand it. Actually correctly named and documented "heirloom" plants are much more valuable than mass produced garbage plants of dubious origin. While I pretty much agree with all parts of that rant, "on the other hand" to expect to find a great deal of astronomy expertise at a UFO convention is unrealistic, or to demand a thoroughly expert assessment of the history of Canada from a picture book published for tourists. One doesn't expect up-to-date hard science from pop books & how-to books. Gardening books tend to be about gardening not taxonomy, & sometimes not even about gardening but about the photographs. Yet when better authors do get into the taxonomical arguments for certain species, it is often about the muddle of disagreements & contradicitions & who recognizes which synonyms as definitive & how many other taxomic namnes it has had all the way back to Clusius & whether or not certain subspecies are still recognized or if they're only variants or only cultivated forms or naturally occurring hybrids with something else the taxonomic standing of which is still debated -- it's not necessarily all that apropos of gardening, though it certainly interests me. I was this week trying to sort out the names of Tulipa sylvestris, & quite enjoyed that minor bit of research, but can't imagine that the majority of gardeners would find that whole story useful. One reason something like Cimicifuga doesn't get its name changed to Actaea in garden shops even after four years is because about a bazillion color-picture name tags were printed up & they have to have to be used up before new ones will be printed, plus Cimicifuga has even worked its way into the "common name" department in lieu of Snakeroot, so to change it suddenly would confuse customers not aware of a name-change & who are not shopping for plants in order to get a taxonomy lesson. In some cases the "correction" of a name is only reported in some specialized botanical magazine with a print-run of 500 copies subscribed only to the largest university libraries so no wonder it takes a while to filter down; & sometimes a mistake is so longstanding that even primary collections on which the science is based have not been corrected so how could some mere nursery retailer know about it. So while your rant is correct in substance it's also understandable & forgiveable. -paghat the ratgirl "Pam - gardengal" wrote in message news:OEZ0d.178460$mD.2500@attbi_s02... "Cereus-validus" wrote in message m... Despite the fact that the average gardener has absolutely no idea why any plant is so named the way it is, I will tell you why. Bottom line: Type species for genus Sedum L. is Sedum acre L. and is a dwarf evergreen perennial with connate kyphocarpic carpels. Genus Hylotelephium H.Ohba (formerly Sedum section Telephium) are deciduous perennials, usually with a tuberous rootstock, and with separate stipitate (slender stalked) carpels. It should be obvious that the growth form of Hylotelephium is very different from that of typical Sedum. Dissect the flowers and you will the differences between the two genera. While this is all well and good in the interest of taxonomic accuracy, you will not find these plants in the commercial trade listed under this name, nor will you find Chamaecyparis nootkatensis listed as Xanocyparis, or Platycladus listed as Biota or seldom Cimicifuga listed as Actaea or even very often Clematis paniculata correctly labeled as C. terniflora. Old habits die hard. -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com |
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"Pam - gardengal" wrote in message news:OEZ0d.178460$mD.2500@attbi_s02... "Cereus-validus" wrote in message m... Despite the fact that the average gardener has absolutely no idea why any plant is so named the way it is, I will tell you why. Bottom line: What a jerk! |
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Clusius? Don't you mean Linnaeus?
I was not saying the horticultural literature needs to give the full history of a particular plant's naming but only to use the currently accepted names and not those that have been out of date for 200 years. In the 1800's the term "variety" was used indiscriminately to describe both botanical varieties collected from wild populations and garden cultivars of selected plants and garden hybrids. Nowadays, botanical varieties and garden cultivars are recognized as being two very different entities with their naming governed by completely different rules of nomenclature. The problem is that many in the horticultural community, including many celebrities that should know better, are either unaware of the rules of nomenclature or prefer to ignore them. They are doing the horticultural community a great disservice by doing so. http://www.bgbm.org/iapt/nomenclatur....Luistitle.htm http://www.ishs.org/sci/icracpco.htm Books, such as Hortus Third, that are supposed to be registries of valid accepted names have failed miserable in actual practice and only added to the confusion. The story goes that most of the work done on Hortus Third was done by newbie grad students and not experts in most of the plant groups and genera covered and was not properly researched at all. The latest botanical research seldom filters down into the popular literature, such as Horticulture magazine, but when it does, it often shakes things up in the horticultural community and creates renewed interest in undeservedly long forgotten or ignored plant groups. I have seen it happen several times in recent years. "paghat" wrote in message news In article , "Cereus-validus" wrote: You really shouldn't make excuses for the sorry state of horticultural knowledge unless you are willing to accept the blame for it being so bad. Horticulture has long been only the idiot stepchild of botany when it should be applied botany. Most of the new gardening books are only lame rehashing of the older obsolete books with more pictures with little or no effort made to bring the information up-to-date. The commercial trade is in most cases even worse. They are just hustling plants with little or no regard for the plants being correctly named. Only the specialty nurseries make an effort to have plants with proper names. Even many of them are still using obsolete or fictitious names. There is the attitude in the trade that there is no money to be made in striving for accuracy nor does the public demand it. Actually correctly named and documented "heirloom" plants are much more valuable than mass produced garbage plants of dubious origin. While I pretty much agree with all parts of that rant, "on the other hand" to expect to find a great deal of astronomy expertise at a UFO convention is unrealistic, or to demand a thoroughly expert assessment of the history of Canada from a picture book published for tourists. One doesn't expect up-to-date hard science from pop books & how-to books. Gardening books tend to be about gardening not taxonomy, & sometimes not even about gardening but about the photographs. Yet when better authors do get into the taxonomical arguments for certain species, it is often about the muddle of disagreements & contradicitions & who recognizes which synonyms as definitive & how many other taxomic namnes it has had all the way back to Clusius & whether or not certain subspecies are still recognized or if they're only variants or only cultivated forms or naturally occurring hybrids with something else the taxonomic standing of which is still debated -- it's not necessarily all that apropos of gardening, though it certainly interests me. I was this week trying to sort out the names of Tulipa sylvestris, & quite enjoyed that minor bit of research, but can't imagine that the majority of gardeners would find that whole story useful. One reason something like Cimicifuga doesn't get its name changed to Actaea in garden shops even after four years is because about a bazillion color-picture name tags were printed up & they have to have to be used up before new ones will be printed, plus Cimicifuga has even worked its way into the "common name" department in lieu of Snakeroot, so to change it suddenly would confuse customers not aware of a name-change & who are not shopping for plants in order to get a taxonomy lesson. In some cases the "correction" of a name is only reported in some specialized botanical magazine with a print-run of 500 copies subscribed only to the largest university libraries so no wonder it takes a while to filter down; & sometimes a mistake is so longstanding that even primary collections on which the science is based have not been corrected so how could some mere nursery retailer know about it. So while your rant is correct in substance it's also understandable & forgiveable. -paghat the ratgirl "Pam - gardengal" wrote in message news:OEZ0d.178460$mD.2500@attbi_s02... "Cereus-validus" wrote in message m... Despite the fact that the average gardener has absolutely no idea why any plant is so named the way it is, I will tell you why. Bottom line: Type species for genus Sedum L. is Sedum acre L. and is a dwarf evergreen perennial with connate kyphocarpic carpels. Genus Hylotelephium H.Ohba (formerly Sedum section Telephium) are deciduous perennials, usually with a tuberous rootstock, and with separate stipitate (slender stalked) carpels. It should be obvious that the growth form of Hylotelephium is very different from that of typical Sedum. Dissect the flowers and you will the differences between the two genera. While this is all well and good in the interest of taxonomic accuracy, you will not find these plants in the commercial trade listed under this name, nor will you find Chamaecyparis nootkatensis listed as Xanocyparis, or Platycladus listed as Biota or seldom Cimicifuga listed as Actaea or even very often Clematis paniculata correctly labeled as C. terniflora. Old habits die hard. -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com |
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