Dicentra spectabilis 'Alba' - 2013
By Andrewr
- 2 May, 2013
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I think we're supposed to call this one macrocapnos now
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I haven't heard the reasons mouldy. Usually it's either they've found the DNA doesn't match with other dicentras so it has to move to a new family, OR a plant explorer found it and called it macrocapnos before somebody else found it and called it dicentra (the first name has priority).
I suspect it's the former reason in this case.
2 May, 2013
Doubtless, it's common name will persist, but I wonder how long the Latin changeover will take in gardeners' mind?
4 May, 2013
Given that pelargoniums are still called geraniums, I would put any money on it happening soon :-)
4 May, 2013
Even that is news to a newbie like myself.
Everything I learn only serves to highlight how little I know. Lol.
5 May, 2013
Don't worry Mouldy - the more you learn about plants and gardening, the more you realise there is to find out. Someone once said, "One lifetime is not enough."
5 May, 2013
I can well believe it, Andrew.
I now wish I'd taken gardening decades ago!
5 May, 2013
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What else?
See who else is growing Dicentra spectabilis.
See who else has plants in genus Dicentra.
This photo is of "Dicentra spectabilis" in Andrewr's garden
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Dicentra Spectabilis
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There was something to that effect on one of Surreylad's pages, if memory serves me, Andrew.
Have they discovered it not to be what they thought it was?
2 May, 2013