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Title: Eleutherococcus id
Post by: Kristl Walek on October 21, 2007, 04:34:50 PM

Hi,
Can anyone help with an id of this Eleutherococcus? The foliage is so different from all the other species I know....

Thanks,
Kristl

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Title: Re: Eleutherococcus id
Post by: Maggi Young on October 21, 2007, 08:03:24 PM

Not sure of your plant  ID, Kristl, but please click on the "modify " Button to see how to attach the image in the post, I have edited it for you.

Title: Re: Eleutherococcus id
Post by: shelagh on October 22, 2007, 04:47:50 PM

Hi Kristl, I don't think this will help other than to rule one out but I was astonished to see Eleutherococcus mentioned on the forum.  Until I went to Prague a few weeks ago I had nver heard of them, I found this in the Botanic Gardens, E. henryi.

Title: Re: Eleutherococcus id
Post by: Maggi Young on October 22, 2007, 04:58:10 PM

Wasn't it 'Sherlock Holmes' who said that when one has eliminated all other possiblities, the one remaining must be the answer, however unlikely it seemed ?
So this must be some kind of progress, Shelagh!  ;)


Edit: nearly got it correct:

Quote

"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Title: Re: Eleutherococcus id
Post by: Anthony Darby on October 22, 2007, 06:20:16 PM

I'm reading Sherlock Holmes volume two (of three) and have nearly finished 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'. 'The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet' is in volume one.

Title: Re: Eleutherococcus id
Post by: Kristl Walek on October 22, 2007, 10:19:22 PM

Shelagh,
The genus Eleutherococcus is of course better known by its prior name of Acanthopanax, with E. sieboldianus being the best-known and most-grown species.

Fascinating bit of trivia--the E. henryii you noted was attempted here at the Dominion Arboretum close to where I live,  17 TIMES, but never once survived a winter. But that was in the good old days of cold winters---bet it might just be hardy now in this global warming insanity.

The species that are hardy here are E. sieboldianus, divaricatus, lasiogyn (surprising), senticosus and sessiliflorus var. parviceps

Kristl

Title: Re: Eleutherococcus id
Post by: Kristl Walek on October 22, 2007, 11:41:39 PM

Oh, such public embarassment....and do I now have to really admit how utterly worn out I am? or are you all so very, very kind on this forum that not one of you noticed that I did not even post a picture of a plant in the correct genus????

Believe it or not, I did not look back at my posted picture until today to realize to my horror that I had posted a lovely shot of our native Button Bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) instead of the mystery Eleutherococcus.

Well, so now, here it is---and my plaguing has now landed me on E. divaricatus....anyone want to comment?