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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Lvandelft on June 06, 2010, 09:02:54 PM

Title: Maianthemum for ID
Post by: Lvandelft on June 06, 2010, 09:02:54 PM

Two weeks ago, when visiting a nursery I saw this plant in the garden as Maianthemum racemosum. I know that the plant I always grew as Smilacina racemosum should be named as  Maianthemum racemosum subsp. amplexicaule, which is the one carrying only a few black berries.
M. racemosum is the one which is carrying many (more reddish) berries and rather slender and stems not so upright falling down when the berries are ripening.
This one is very easy from seeds, but in my eyes not such a good garden plant.

Now in this nursery garden I saw this very sturdy and much more robust plant which I never saw before.
I hope somebody of the specialists out there can help me with a name of this plant.

Title: Re: Maianthemum for ID
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 07, 2010, 12:28:07 AM

Smilacina is now Maianthemum? Oh no! >:(

Title: Re: Maianthemum for ID
Post by: Carlo on June 07, 2010, 08:16:33 PM

Has been for at least a while. Can anyone keep up?