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  1. There is a huge middle-ground of plants that we know as "typicals" and all plants are assumed to be in this group as the default assumption. A small number of plants are observed to be "special" and provided with cultivar status (for the current discussion both official (published) & unofficial names are included). When significant evidence exists to cast doubt on the provenance of a plant - virtually no confusion takes place by placing it back into the large diverse group of "typicals".However, the reverse is absolutely not true. Elevating a "typical" to a specific cultivar because someone thinks it looks similar (or for any other host of silly, non-justifiable reasons) without the benefit of provenance causes confusion & muddies the waters. The possible confusion coming from renaming a plant when there is doubt -- is not a two-way street (imho).
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  2. Good evening Mister Vulture, (you speak German, because of your nickname "Geier"?) Edelweiß in vitro...now, that is a blasphemy! I have no clue about Edelweiß, some years ago someone (a manager of a job training centre) who wanted to grow them in his garden told me there are sometimes Edelweiß offered in garden centres and DIYs coming from mass propagation in Holland. They would be looking poor and would rather have a more grey flower colour than the natural shiny white. He finally found a special nursery which raised them from seed (I believe) where those plants were relatively expensive. But the manager was happy to grow robust plants with shiny white flowers. I hope you don´t mean Edelweiß substances are good aphrodisiacs.... Excuse me for being cynical! There is this terrible prejudice Chinese would use everything rare and special as aphrodisiacs. Friendly Andreas
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  3. part 3 planifolia pilosa pilosa x laueana
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