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Gunnera

The Royal Horticultural Society, not a body I usually deal with, has asked for leaf samples of Gunnera where it is found in the wild. Apparently there are hybrids about. My current distribution map looks like this:

Gunnera

If you know of any more out there, please let me know. It will be good to know for sure what these plants are – which should be clear after the DNA analysis planned.

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  1. Gunnera | Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles Says:
    December 13, 2023 at 12:38 pm | Reply

    […] Back in 2015, I was asked by the Botany team at the Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley to provide samples of naturalised Gunnera plants for DNA analysis. I have just received the results and the two from Sleat are G. tinctoria. However, two others, from Waternish and the Dunvegan area, turn out to be Gunnera x cryptica, the recently described hybrid between G. manicata and G. tinctoria. […]

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