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JohnnyD

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Where & What?
« 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
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Re: Where & What?
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: Where & What?
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Where & What?
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: Where & What?
« Reply #4 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 .....
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