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A small growing plant that I bought in 2012 from a Plant Heritage sale. In the following 12 years I have photographed it once. Writing about the cultivar in the 'New Plantsman', David Cann says: "There are currently four names being used for the spiny Ruscus outside of the Caspian Basin. One of these represents a hotricultural clone, usually mistakenly cultivated as Ruscus aculeatus L. var. angustifolius Boissier and sold under various names. 'Lanceolatus' was received at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on 6th April 1904, obtained from C. Sprenger's first list of the same year, Hortus Botanicus Vomerensis, Naples; it was listed as an unranked trinomial. He described it as a 'hardy, fine new variety, with scarlet berries'. It is believed that the material of 'Lanceolatus' in cultivation is clonal and represents an aberration of var. aculeatus and not var. angustifolius: this should correctly be called R. aculeatus 'Lanceolatus'." |
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| 8th August 2020 | ||