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A strange hybrid of V. carlersii, flowering in late spring. It grew well in the garden for a decade and then it was chewed to the ground by a deer
and didn't recover. I originally bought it as V. (carlesii x juddii) but recent taxonomic changes have brought all of the parent species into V. carlesii. Trees and Shrubs online says about V. x juddii: "Since the two parents are now both regarded as varieties of V. carlesii, the name Viburnum × juddii (a nothospecies) is no longer valid. Regarded as a selection of V. carlesii, rather than an interspecific hybrid, a cultivar name is more appropriate, thus we adopt V. carlesii ’Juddii’ - the latinate cultivar name being permitted in this case. A hybrid between V. carlesii var. carlesii (seed-parent) and V. carlesii var. bitchiuense (syn. V. bitchiuense), raised by William H. Judd at the Arnold Arboretum in 1920, though not described and named until 1935. In its botanical characters it is intermediate between the parents. The corymbs are rather laxer than in V. carlesii and a trifle wider with more numerous not quite so sweetly scented flowers. It is a plant of good constitution, growing to about 5 ft high. Award of Garden Merit 1960." My plant should have a cultivar name to distinguish it from other V. carlesii, but I have not been able to trace one, and since my plnt is dead I'm not going to create one. |
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| 8th April 2014 | ||
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