Actaea pachypoda v. rubrocarpa

[Neil Jorgensen]

charset=US-ASCII;
format=flowed

Dear Henry,

Yes.  it is forma neglecta which, according to Gray (Fernald), is
sometimes more abundant than the regular red form.  I think I have seen
it in botanical gardens e.g. Garden in the Woods, Framingham MA, but I
can never recall finding it in the wild.  Much of the land hereabouts
in underlain with granite so the soil is low pH and Actea of all kinds
seem to be endemic to the relatively few circumneutral soil areas in
here in Eastern New England.

Neil Jorgensen
Kittery, Maine Zone 5b
On Wednesday, August 4, 2004, at 04:12 PM, Henry wrote:

> Isn't there also a white-berried variety of /Actea rubra/?
>
> --Henry Fieldseth
> Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Zone 4
>
>
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!
> http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: text/enriched
Size: 884 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mailman.science.uu.nl/pipermail/arisaema-l/attachments/20040804/8b0e0bea/attachment.bin