Cyathea

The following message was sent to me by Dan Yansura, a hobbyist living in Pacifica, near San
Francisco.
JHe said he found the message on Rod Hill's website. I do not know F^od Hill, i presume Hill's
'comments
appl^to the fern attached, but I am not certain. - Barbara Joe Hoshizaki, March 3, 2004
Rod Hill:
I first saw this species some years ago growing at a friend's wholesale
nursery on the north coast
of NSW. He had grown large numbers of plants from spore of a single
specimen that had
mysteriously appeared in one of his trays of sporelings. He did not want
to release the plant
commercially without a name, and gave me a plant in the hope that I
might have some success at
identifying it. On checking all of my sources of reference material, the
closest I could find was the
following description of Cyathea tomentosissima in 'FLORA MALESIANA". I
sent a copy to my
friend, and this species has been thus labelled in the trade ever since.
Xs
CMLT(vA7£p
Label name: Cyathea tomentosissima Copel.
Source: horticulture. Garden of Dan Yansura,
Pacifica, CA
August 3,2003	BJ. Hoshizaki 03-11
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