Details for: NA 82688, Clethra alnifolia L., (pink selection)

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Clethra alnifolia L.

Top Name:

(pink selection)

Origin:

–

Maintained:

National Arboretum

Received by NPGS:

21 Jun 2023

Improvement Status:

Uncertain improvement status

Life Form:

Shrub

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Clethra alnifolia L.

Top Name:

(pink selection)

Origin:

–

Maintained:

National Arboretum

Received by NPGS:

21 Jun 2023

Improvement Status:

Uncertain improvement status

Life Form:

Shrub

Source History

Accession Names and Identifiers

(pink selection)

Type: Other or unclassified name

NA 82688

Type: Site identifier

Group: NA

U.S. National Arboretum

Narrative

Full name as recorded at U.S. National Arboretum: Clethra alnifolia (pink selection). Single plant of uncertain identity and origin growing in bed FV-R6 at time of accessioning, not far from the boundary of FV-02 (near a Corylus americana). Plant with good, non-fading light/medium pink petals, rather large individual florets; seems to be distinct from other named pink clones at the Arboretum at time of accessioning. Could be old NA 33019, received as C. alnifolia f. rosea from Princeton Nurseries, but that is a very uncertain possibility and plant does not match modern references to 'Rosea' as it is a much better pink. Joan recalls that the plant was there when she started and that she believes it used to have a label indicating that it was a pink form. Of possible interest in the search for material of the original USNA introduction 'Pinkspire', but any connection to that cultivar is highly speculative and doubtful at this point. -SBL Form received: unknown propagule type.

Clethra alnifolia L.

Genus:

Clethra

Family:

Clethraceae

Nomen number:

10901

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:396. 1753, nom. cons.

Comment:

conserved (nom. cons.) with a conserved type (Shenzhen ICN Art. 14.9 & App. IV)

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

12/11/2019 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	coastal sweet pepperbush	1	FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
English	pink-spire	1	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
English	summersweet	1	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
English	sweet pepperbush	1	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Swedish	konvaljbuske	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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