Cape heaths in European gardens: the early history of South African <i>Erica</i> species in cultivation, their deliberate hybridization and the orthographic bedlam
This paper discusses the horticultural history of southern African Erica spp. in Europe, and especially in Britain, during the late eighteenth and the early decades of the nineteenth century . We note evidence for the deliberate hybridization of the so-called Cape heaths by European horticulturists,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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South African National Biodiversity Institut
2004-09-01
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| Series: | Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation |
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| Online Access: | https://abcjournal.org/index.php/abc/article/view/427 |