Phrag. caudatum 'Bronze Beauty' Windy Hill'

[Piper]

What a pain in the toosh! Renaming with previously used names is not only over-the-top anal-retentive (and that should be an oxymoron, but not in this instance), it's moronic!

Julie

[Hoa Tony Nguyen]

Holy craps! Are they pulling the rugs on us again? They are changing the names of my most favorite phrag species? How moronic!!!

Hi Gin,
Since Jason did such a great job in telling you those species (most commonly available, caudatum, warscewiczianum, and wallisii), I don't have much to add except that there might be varieties for some of the aforementioned species, like Phrag. caudatum var. sanderae.
I think that your caudatum is such a great plant. 28 in. petals and still growing!!! Holy COW indeed!

Cheers. Hoa.

[Piper]

No, no, no, Hoa...it's:

Holy Veal!

Julie

[Hoa Tony Nguyen]

Okie!

...HOLY VEAL!!!...

[Jmoney]

as far as I know nobody is calling the old phrag wallisii (with the cream colored flowers) warscewiczianum. I have heard conflicting reports that this "popowii" thing, (the dark one, what used to be called warscewiczianum and what I CONTINUE TO CALL warscewiczianum, taxonomists go to hell), may or may not be already recognized by the RHS. who the @$^@ knows?

I personally will continue to call them by their old names since they've been that way for a century? It's bad enough that we have to call kovachii by that name and not peruvianum like it should have been called. I wonder what ended up happening to that clown?

I think yours is a caudatum, although I've seen the cultivar 'Windy Hill' advertised as both caudatum and wars. the large size of your plant favors caudatum, as does the greenish/tan color. wars is very compact (15" leafspan on mature plants) and usually very very dark.

[Gin]

Final measurment .. 30 inches , Thanks all for looking . I 'm with you Jason the ones that keep changing names can kiss this . lol Gin