Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Lori S. on April 02, 2010, 06:29:59 AM
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This is not really an ID question, but I am wondering if anyone can verify that Campanula kowkinsiana exists as a species name.
It's listed in Pavelka's seed list as having been collected at 1700m, Pindos, Greece.
Given the dearth of information on the internet and in my books about it (no mention in Nicholls, Lewis & Lynch), I'm starting to wonder if it is, perhaps, a misspelling of Campanula hawkinsiana, also a Greek species?
Thanks in advance for any information.
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Lori, I don't think there exists a plant with the name of Campanula kowkinsiana, it's probably a mis-typing.
Campanula hawkinsiana is coming from Mt. Smolika in the Pindus Range.
By accident I saw a little article in AGS Vol I last week when searching for something else.
There is even a picture in it. It got a Certificate of Merit in June 1931. Needs probably alpine house!
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Thanks, Luit. I will assume that it probably is Campanula hawkinsiana.
Needs probably alpine house!
I wouldn't know, but I'll be trying it outdoors - wish me luck! Todd Boland (Research Horticulturalist at the botanical garden at Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland) found it can't stand winter wet, however, winter wet is not a problem here in this very different climate.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/85124/
Nicholls says it is "a must for the sunny rock garden and scree", through it is short-lived.
It looks like it will be an interesting experiment. :)
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Lori, I wish you all the luck there is and hope you will be able to show a flowering plant here :-\.
I just forgot to mention before that it should require lime-free scree.