Subject: Plant Info Needed

From: [email-masked] (Denise Walters)
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 23:29:06 GMT

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I'll give it a shot:

Does anyone have any plant info on Dalechampi-something-or-other?
This is a vine I got at the local nursery.  I have never seen anything
like it and I can't find any reference to it in several big fat gardening
encyclopedias I have checked.

I need to know the proper fertilization, soil conditions, watering,
sun exposure, and propagation.  I'd also like to know where it came
from, if that's possible.  I just now realized that I must have temp-
orarily misplaced the tag off of it that had the name.  But I'm sure
it starts with "Dalechampi".

Thanks,
  Denise

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From: "warrren reuschel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 96 15:37:11 PDT

Denise
        It sounds very much like you are describing a member of the genus
Delchampia, a widespread South American plant.  Most of the information I
have found concerning this genus comes from the Flora of Costa Rica.  A
summary of the Flora of Costa Rica, genus Delchampia can be found at:
http://www.mobot.org/manual.plantas/010973/G011716.html

These files are in Spanish, so that might be a problem

Warren Reuschel
Botany Graduate Student
Marshall University, WV
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Subject: Plant Info Needed
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From: [email-masked] (Denise Walters)
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 23:29:06 GMT
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Thanks,
  Denise

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From: [email-masked] (Clinton Morse)
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 96 19:42:39 GMT

>encyclopedias I have checked.

It might be Dalechampia which is in the Euphorbiaceae.  I've heard that some 
species are in cultivation but do not know any specifics. Most euphorbs like a 
sandy, well-drained soil though.

The only other idea is Deschampsia, but those are grasses, not vines so I 
doubt thats it (unless someone switched tags at the nursery. :-()

Hope this helps

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 15:36:25 GMT

>  Denise

My plant-book says Dalechampia is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae,
most of the 110 species are American. Some have stinging glands. Yours
could be D. roezliana fro Mexico, an ornamental plant. This could help
you find some more info.

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