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Title: Trying to Locate an Article
Post by: Lesley Cox on August 21, 2011, 05:57:02 AM

I'm trying to locate an article in an AGS Bulletin of some years ago, about Podophyllums. There was a photograph of three fruits, red, white and yellow, of PP. hexandrum, pleianthum and the American one whose name I can't remember. Any suggestions with the number or Volume of the Bulletin would be appreciated.

Title: Re: Trying to Locate an Article
Post by: Diane Clement on August 21, 2011, 08:12:18 AM

Lesley, there's an index to the AGS Bulletins online, on this page

Alpine Gardener Cumulative Index (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/publications/Alpine-Gardener/cumulative-index/)

The article you mention is in Vol 64, p 334.

When I just opened the page at the article, I saw the picture on p334 and thought, for a brief moment, that it showed Jeffersonia dubia alba (until I noticed the Podophyllum leaves behind the flower) - I don't think I'd ever really seen the Berberidaceae family connection before.

Title: Re: Trying to Locate an Article
Post by: Carlo on August 21, 2011, 12:44:54 PM

..and the American one? Podophyllum peltatum.

Title: Re: Trying to Locate an Article
Post by: Diane Clement on August 21, 2011, 01:06:22 PM

Quote from: Carlo on August 21, 2011, 12:44:54 PM

..and the American one? Podophyllum peltatum.  

 
And that "American one" is, strictly speaking, the only one now left in the genus Podophyllum, the others dispersed into other genera: P hexandrum now Sinopodophyllum hexandrum and P pleianthum and its allies into Dysosma.  

Here's the reference, if anyone wants to know why  ;D
New combinations for Sinopodophyllum hexandrum (http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/RHS-Publications/Journals/Hanburyana/Hanburyan-issues/Volume-4--September-2009/HanburyanaVol4_33to39_Sinopodophyllum)

Title: Re: Trying to Locate an Article
Post by: Carlo on August 21, 2011, 01:25:02 PM

Thanks for the reference Diane.

Title: Re: Trying to Locate an Article
Post by: alpines on August 21, 2011, 01:26:36 PM

Here's the American one...Podophyllum peltatum...the May Apple.
Not one of my better shots but will give some indication of the flower and the leaves.

Title: Re: Trying to Locate an Article
Post by: Lesley Cox on August 21, 2011, 09:12:05 PM

Thank you everyone, for the references and information especially the reminder about the cumulative Index, about which I'd totally forgotten. ::)

I can real off the names of half a dozen others I'm never likely to have but for some reason peltatum (of which I currently have seedlings) always escapes me. Aren't all those fruit quite beautiful?