Comments on: Plants of the Week: August 27 https://www.scottarboretum.org/plants-week-august-27/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:44:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Becky Robert https://www.scottarboretum.org/plants-week-august-27/#comment-1440 Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:47:36 +0000 https://www.scottarboretum.org/?p=9168#comment-1440 In reply to Ed.

Dear Ed,
Here is the Abstract on xGordlinia. Yes, the cross had been made before in the 70s, but all those plants died. Ranney in essence was the first to successfully cross the two and have them live. He made a total of nine hybrids. From those we have the plants that are in the trade.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3e6b/058cad38879444537d0ab6447b6d3cc69957.pdf

Sincerely,
Josh Coceano
Scott Arboretum

]]> By: Ed https://www.scottarboretum.org/plants-week-august-27/#comment-1439 Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:18:06 +0000 https://www.scottarboretum.org/?p=9168#comment-1439 Tom Rainey merely repeated a known cross

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