Thanks a lot Varun Ji for the detail information and also to you Garg Ji. Regards, Aarti
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:00 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > A reply: > "Most probably this is Blake's Coral Tree. But there is an interesting > story behind *E. bidwillii* and* E. blakei*: > “*BLAKEI*” the origin of this hybrid, c. 1840, is attributed to John > Carne Bidwill, Government Botanist and first Director of the Royal Botanic > Gardens, Sydney (1847-48), as a cross between *E. herbacea* (female) and *E. > crista-galli* (male). However, one of his friends may have been > responsible. Specimens were sent to William Herbert of Manchester, England, > in the 1840s and it was later widely distributed by the famous Veitch NSY > in London. It is described in the monograph on *Erythina* as, ‘the best > know and biologically most successful hybrid *Erythrina*,’ which adds, > ‘it seems likely that not all the races grown today under the name are > descendants of the original cross’. There is some variation in the size of > the flowers and the intensity of their colouration and it is evidently more > popular in cultivation outside Australia. Plants selected from the original > cross and listed in the Camden Park (NSW) catalogue of 1845 (as *E. > camdeni*) are perhaps best known as the clone ‘Camdenensis’, because a > second seedling of the same cross was later selected and named after Camden > Park gardener, Edmund Blake, and listed in the 1850 Camden catalogue as > *E.* ‘*Blakei*”. The former selection has not been clearly identified and > the latter selection, under the Cultivated Plant Code, is best referred to > as *E. X bidwillii* ‘*Blakei’*. *E. X blakei* is a name of no botanical > standing. > *Reference: Clough, R. (1992). Mr Bidwill's Erythrina. Austral. Gard. > Hist. 3(4): 10.* > Kind regards, > Varun" > > Thanks, Varun ji. > > On 19 March 2017 at 10:28, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Appears close to the images at *Erythrina bidwillii *Lindl. >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/f/fabaceae/erythrina/erythrina-bidwillii> >> / *Erythrina blakei *R.Parker >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/f/fabaceae/erythrina/erythrina-blakei> >> as per images herein in efi (to me both appears to me the same species). >> Pl. see the thread >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/indiantreepix/Erythrina$20AND$20bidwillii/indiantreepix/A7w4SBA6_XM> >> . >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]> >> Date: 31 October 2014 at 10:11 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:204754] Erythrina For ID : California : 31OCT14 : >> AK-47 >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, Gurcharan Singh < >> [email protected]>, Vijayasankar Raman <[email protected]> >> >> >> Cultivated Erythrina Species seen in Fremont, California on the 9th >> Oct,14. >> Small tree with red flowers in a home garden. >> Erythrina blakei? >> Kindly confirm id. >> Aarti >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> >> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >> world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). >> >> The whole world uses my Image Resource >> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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