Re: [CH] *chinense*

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> Since most are from South america,

all are (originally)

> how did they end up with a cultivar name

species name, not cultivar name

> that means "from china"?  :)

I don't know this to be fact, but the probable reason is that this species
most likely had been disseminated to China (Macau) by the Portuguese long
before the first European botanists saw it, and the first specimens they
saw were from China and at first believed they must be native to China.

 ---   Brent

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