Ident Help

[Jim McClements, Dover, DE z6]

In a message dated 11/2/02 3:32:38 PM, briancook at SYMPATICO.CA writes:

<< Thanks to some busy squirrels I have had all my plant tags scrambled I am

having a bit of trouble re-identifying a couple of plants. I managed to

salvage the foliage from one of the plants before the frost got it too bad

and was hoping someone here could help me ID it.


This is quite large and I had to make a composite image as it would not fit

in the scanner all at once.  I have included a common sized pen in the image

for scale comparison but it is roughly 35cm top to bottom.

>>

Brian

It looks like foliage from a species in section franchetii, such as
franchetianum, fargesii or candidissimum, but even with a flower it's hard to
tell the first two apart. In fact, some think that they are the same.

Jim McClements