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--- On Sun, 6/22/08, derek burch wrote:
> From: derek burch
> Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Alocasia zebrina reticulata
> To: "'Discussion of aroids'"
> Date: Sunday, June 22, 2008, 2:21 PM
> Steve,
>
>
>
> I hate to be pedantic (actually, I don't, it is all I
> have left), but if you
> are going to present the name as variety reticulata, that
> word (reticulata)
> should be italicized. It is just as much a 'scientific
> name as is the
> specific epithet or the genus name. So you would write
> Alocasia zebrina var.
> reticulata, but, of course you can only do this if this
> varietal name has
> been validly published. If not, to be strictly correct, you
> would refer to
> this as Alocasia zebrina reticulate form. This is what all
> the catalog
> writers and advertisers should be doing, not grasping for
> pseudoscience.
>
>
>
> I would also say (and thoroughly agree with Alistair Hay on
> this) that it is
> rather loose speaking to refer to this as a sport. If, as
> appears to be the
> case, it is just one of many forms that occur in a variable
> wild population,
> then the appropriate measure would be for someone to select
> a particularly
> striking specimen, verify by vegetative propagation that it
> has a stable
> appearance over several generations and then name it as a
> cultivar -
> registering it if I can ever get the cultivar registration
> program for
> aroids off the ground (mea culpa here for slow resolution
> in setting the
> program on a firm footing). By the way, there is absolutely
> nothing except
> one's own sense of responsibility to stop anyone
> tacking on a cultivar name
> to anything. Sad but true. It won't be a registered
> cultivar name until the
> formalities have been done, and then we would all be able
> to see what this
> cultivar should look like, and to whom the blame for it
> should go.
>
>
>
> I really am trying hard to get the registration program
> going and I have a
> registration form worked out that I would be glad to send
> to anyone willing
> to test and suggest improvements. Then I will eventually
> try to persuade the
> board that we as a society can make this work, and join the
> many other
> groups that do this naming responsibly.
>
>
>
> Derek
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com
> [mailto:aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com]
> On Behalf Of ExoticRainforest
> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 2:59 PM
> To: Discussion of aroids
> Subject: [Aroid-l] Alocasia zebrina reticulata
>
>
>
> Enid, here is the link to all the info I was able to get
> from Alistair Hay,
> Julius and others. I hope this helps.
>
>
>
> http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Alocasia%20zebrina%20pc.html
>
>
>
> Steve Lucas
>
>
>
> OK, does anyone out there know where Alocasia zebrina
> reticulata originally
> came from? Is it a proper species or a mutant?
>
> Enid
>
>
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