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Maggi Young

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Re: Namesake plants- a digression
« Reply #15 on: February 16, 2015, 10:30:41 PM »
Plants named for you can be a real trial though -  our pal, local SRGC member Wilf Holmes, had a orchid GENUS named for him after he found plants in Africa - Holmesia  sp.  etc ....    but  they have since been reclassified as Angraecopis .....   e.g. Holmesia parva P.J.Cribb  Kew Bull. 32: 175 1977  is a synonym of Angraecopsis parva (P.J.Cribb) P.J.Cribb   Fl. Trop. E. Afr. Orchid.(3): 601 1989.    :'(
other synonyms - with dates .....
Microholmesia parva (P.J.Cribb) P.J.Cribb  Plant-book 371 1987.
Mystacidium parvum (P.J.Cribb) R.Rice  Oasis 3: 13 2006.  :'(
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Re: Namesake plants- a digression
« Reply #16 on: February 16, 2015, 10:43:48 PM »
Lewisia maguirei is definitely more attractive than its namesake.

It's also critically endangered (8 sites within an 8km radius in Nevada) so I'll have to be content with pictures. At least I'm not critically endangered.  ::)
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« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2015, 11:16:16 AM »
I have the Mexican Aloysia wrightii which has the fabulous common name of Wright's beebrush. How great is that?! ;D
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Re: Namesake plants- a digression
« Reply #18 on: February 17, 2015, 11:41:45 AM »
That's a bit fab - you  need a son named Aloysius Wright too - I'm told changing a name by Deed Poll only costs around £30 ......
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Re: Namesake plants- a digression
« Reply #19 on: February 17, 2015, 11:56:47 AM »
Did I mention that I also grow Lophomyrtus x ralphii?
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Re: Namesake plants- a digression
« Reply #20 on: February 17, 2015, 01:01:20 PM »
Do journals about plants count?

http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/
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Re: Namesake plants- a digression
« Reply #21 on: February 17, 2015, 01:06:40 PM »
Woohoo! Playing a great trump card there, Arnold!  8) 8)
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Re: Namesake plants- a digression
« Reply #22 on: February 17, 2015, 01:29:51 PM »
What not satisfied with Rafflesia arnoldii, the biggest of them all?  You need a whole arboretum? ;)
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Re: Namesake plants- a digression
« Reply #23 on: February 17, 2015, 03:28:56 PM »
And nose plugs.

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Re: Namesake plants- a digression
« Reply #24 on: February 19, 2015, 12:09:51 AM »
It stands to reason that a bulb despot would have a birch: https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/92990/Betula-pendula-Youngii/Details  ;D
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Re: Namesake plants- a digression
« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2015, 09:49:24 AM »
Quote from: SJW on February 19, 2015, 12:09:51 AM
It stands to reason that a bulb despot would have a birch: https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/92990/Betula-pendula-Youngii/Details  ;D
   ;D ;D ;D


And it's a  good tree - but I'd like to claim something smaller and pretty - Incarvillea younghusbandii  :)
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Re: Namesake plants- a digression
« Reply #26 on: February 25, 2015, 08:13:27 PM »
I obviously grow Allium christophii, a real thug in the garden seeding everywhere. :o :o :o
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Re: Namesake plants- a digression
« Reply #27 on: February 25, 2015, 09:52:39 PM »
Quote from: ChrisD on February 25, 2015, 08:13:27 PM
I obviously grow Allium christophii, a real thug in the garden seeding everywhere. :o :o :o

 There's no answer to that........     :-X     ;)
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