Re: [CH] V6 #2 Chinense

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Hi CH's,
Brent T. wrote of C. chinense:

>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.

Or perhaps because many of the pods resemble chinese lanterns?

I just looked it up. Name given by the Dutch physician Nikolaus von 
Jaquin who wrote "I have taken the plant's name from its homeland." 
So I guess that we both could be correct!

BTW -  The "Bolivian rainbows" I am growing are C. frutescens not 
chinense. The flowers are solitary.

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                      Regards,               Cameron.

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