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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Claire Cockcroft on September 24, 2015, 09:09:50 PM

Title: Gaultheria paraguayense?
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on September 24, 2015, 09:09:50 PM

I was given a plant with the name "Gaultheria paraguayense".  I haven't been able to find any reference to that name or one under Pernettya.  Has anyone a clue what this might be?
Thanks!
...Claire

Title: Re: Gaultheria paraguayense?
Post by: Maggi Young on September 24, 2015, 09:30:20 PM

Might it instead be Gaultheria/ Pernettya  patagonica? ( which is a synonym of Gaultheria poeppigii var. nana)  :-\

Title: Re: Gaultheria paraguayense?
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on September 24, 2015, 10:23:05 PM

Thanks, Maggi. "patagonica" was the closest name I found, too.  Here's a picture of the plant.
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Title: Re: Gaultheria paraguayense?
Post by: johnw on September 25, 2015, 01:58:20 AM

Quote from: Claire Cockcroft on September 24, 2015, 09:09:50 PM

I was given a plant with the name "Gaultheria paraguayense".  I haven't been able to find any reference to that name or one under Pernettya.  Has anyone a clue what this might be?
Thanks!...Claire

The paraguayense bit rings a distant bell.   Will ask Barry Starling.  Maybe it was Mike Stone that mentioned it, he was big on them.

johnw

Title: Re: Gaultheria paraguayense?
Post by: johnw on September 25, 2015, 02:07:02 PM

When Ken saw this he immediately said it was a parent of Barry's Pernettya 'Pearls'.  In retrospect that's where I recall the mention of that species and wondered why 'Pearls' would have not hardiness issues.

Barry replied:
"Pernettya paraguayensis is not a valid name but there is a Pernettya around under this name. It looks like P. pumila but I think it is a high alpine form of P. leucocarpa.  There is an article of mine "The Smaller Pernettyas" written I think, in the early 1970s in A.G.S. Bulletin. It should be on line - that gives more info. Will be in touch on my returm, Barry."

Meanwhile Ken says it's The Smaller Pernettyas (1972), AGS Vol. 40, pg. 309.

Hope this helps.

john

Title: Re: Gaultheria paraguayense?
Post by: Maggi Young on September 25, 2015, 02:21:40 PM

Well done Ken - and Barry !
 Unfortunately the AGS  does not have a full archive of its journals  online  but I can  get a copy for you, Claire, if you do not have that journal.

Title: Re: Gaultheria paraguayense?
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on September 25, 2015, 05:31:02 PM

Thank you, all, for the quick look-up.  I probably have the journal, because Betty and Ned Lowry gave me Betty's collection.  I will pass this information on to the folks who gave me the plant (the Pat Calvert Greenhouse at the Washington Arboretum, Seattle).
...Claire

Title: Re: Gaultheria paraguayense?
Post by: Maggi Young on September 25, 2015, 06:13:59 PM

I'll send you a copy anyway, Claire, so you can pass that to the W.A. if it's useful.

Can find no mention of Gaultheria  paraguayense in the index for the SRGC journal.