Norway
Comment: Donor remark: I was at a conference in Uppsala and took the opportunity to visit the botanical garden where Mattias Iwarsson of POM had told me that there had been a large Hablitzia when he was a student in the late 1960s. He put me in touch with Tomas Zicha who agreed to meet me on Friday morning. In the meantime, Mattias had visited the garden and reported the following “I walked around the Orangery recently and noticed that they do still have a large plant there (in the courtyard). It is located only 10m from the old plant which I found in 1968 when I was studying there)."Tomas showed me the plant which was not very vigorous and was creeping on the ground next to an archway. There were a number of seedlings around the plant and lots of seed some of which I collected. The plant appears to be of the "wild" type - small flowers and reddish stems, suggesting the plant had originated as a wild accession.The Botanical Garden's accession number is 0000-1249. The four zeros indicate that the accession predates 1950, before which time accession records do not exist.
Donator(s):