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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: JohnnyD on October 22, 2025, 11:29:19 AM

Title: Where & What?
Post by: JohnnyD on October 22, 2025, 11:29:19 AM

This plant label is attached to a vigourously (for the first time!) plant for which I can find absolutely no provenance. I wonder if anyone recognises the label source. JohnnyD

Title: Re: Where & What?
Post by: Vinny 123 on October 22, 2025, 04:33:14 PM

"Hareknoll" and "hare knoll" are used for the names of varieties of quite a few plant species, but finding where that comes from...........................

Searching online is hampered by lilac being found in millions of listings for lilac - Syringa.

Title: Re: Where & What?
Post by: JohnnyD on October 22, 2025, 05:27:00 PM

Just found the following Vinny - 'The "Hareknoll Lilac" is not a recognized cultivar of Ipheion uniflorum -'.
Seems the label was an invention.
Cheers,
JohnnyD

Title: Re: Where & What?
Post by: Vinny 123 on October 22, 2025, 07:01:10 PM

Not being recognised and not being real are potentially rather different.

I am unsure how a cultivar is "accepted" (I know about species and sub-species, and suchlike at a botanical level).

Not being recognised MIGHT be simply down to what has not been done in terms of it getting recognised.

Title: Re: Where & What?
Post by: JohnnyD on October 22, 2025, 09:54:38 PM

Quite so Vinny. Let's wait until it flowers and see if they look like anything known. If not then .....
JohnnyD