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I picked up a strap leafed berlandieri at the NorCal meeting last week, grown from seed by Patric Shafer....looking forward to watching it grow. Repotted it into a 3 gallon pot from its liner.
I don't know that one. I plugged that name in the Kew list, and it didn't register. Is this a valid name?
It appears to be. It is on the NC Palm Society website and found as Brahea berlandieri var. bella (http://www.palmsnc.org/pages/palm_detail.php?id=147) and Brahea berlandieri 'Tilaco' (Silver Rock Palm) (http://www.palmsnc.org/pages/palm_detail.php?id=146). It was posted as a species on Palmpedia (I certainly did not add it, I would have asked) so I just placed my commentary. What I do not know is which of the 2 possibilities this one is...I may not know for some time.
It appears that this name is a synonym of Brahea dulcis......whatever that means. With at least 3 varities, there appears that someday there may be some movement here. I'll continue with berlandieri until it is big enough to deal with.....besides, I like the name Silver Rock Palm!
Looking at the Kew list, berlandieri has been dissolved into armata. The name, as it was applied for the photo by me came from the Fairchild collection. They are good with keeping current but they have a bit of synonymy as well. I will note this in the page for berlandieri.
I was looking at the Kew list that is connected to Palmpedia. All I saw was the synonym to B. dulcis...what am I missing?
John, What I did was just type in the genus Brahea. It will then present you with the entire species list under the genus. If you look at the synonyms for armata you will find berlandieri. They also list bella as a synonym to armata. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do;jsessionid=805B440F971396751E2DDB774F76F84B
This is what I saw: http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail...epSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=24007&status=false Whatever it takes.....
John, You're right it is under dulcis. I was using the check list wrong as it displays the whole genus. I, in my dyslexic wonder read the list as having a different order other than alphebetical (duh). If I was more left brain dominant, I might get these things a little easier. Sorry for the confusion.
