Details for: PI 666937, Agapetes serpens (Wight) Sleumer, 'Nepal Cream (A. serpens)'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Agapetes serpens (Wight) Sleumer

Cultivar:

'Nepal Cream (A. serpens)'

Origin:

Collected – Nepal

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

13 Dec 2012

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Reproductive Uniformity:

Hybrid

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Shrub

Life Habit:

Shrub

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Agapetes serpens (Wight) Sleumer

Cultivar:

'Nepal Cream (A. serpens)'

Origin:

Collected – Nepal

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

13 Dec 2012

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Reproductive Uniformity:

Hybrid

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Shrub

Life Habit:

Shrub

Source History

Collected

Nepal
Coordinates: 26.5333, 86.7333 (Map it)
Environment description: Epiphytic. Grows on rhododendron branches in the wild

Collector(s):

Hootman, Steve, Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden

Donated

13 December 2012.
Washington, United States

Donor(s):

Hootman, Steve, Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden

Accession Group(s)

Group name: Agapetes
Note: Blueberry crop wild relative
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Accession Names and Identifiers

'Nepal Cream (A. serpens)'

Type: Cultivar name

Group: CULTIVAR

A. serpens 'Nepal Cream'

Type: Developer identifier

Group: RHODODENDRON.BG.2012

Rhododendron Botanical Garden donation, Steve Hootman, Curator

CVAC 2125

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

Narrative

A rhododendron relative with small, glossy and deep green pointed leaves arranged along long arching stems. Beautiful and interesting tubular cream?white flowers hang in clusters along the pendulous stems. This plant is epiphytic in the wild and can be grown in a hanging basket or on an old stump. Drought tolerant once established, it is best to strongly pinch it back for the first couple of years. Native to the eastern Himalaya where it grows from the branches of large rhododendrons and other trees. This plant is distinct and highly ornamental.

Agapetes serpens (Wight) Sleumer

Genus:

Agapetes

Family:

Ericaceae

Subfamily:

Vaccinioideae

Tribe:

Vaccinieae

Nomen number:

1669

Place of publication:

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 70:105. 1939

Verified:

05/19/2015 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Vaccinium serpens Wight

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Pentapterygium serpens (Wight) Klotzsch

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
Chinese	wu chi mei	五翅莓		2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Swedish	ampelljung			2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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