ornamental grass-- long shot

[Dr. Gerald Stinger Guala]

It sounds as though it might be Fakahatchee Grass - Tripsacum dactyloides
or Dwarf Fakahatchee Grass - Tripsacum floridanum

The silliness of common names aside (there are a lot of common names for
these species and neither is really very common in the Fakahatchee strand)
neither is a "plume" grass either, the inflorescence has just a few spikes.
They are both very common in the nursery trade in Florida though and I have
even seen them in the Cayman Islands under those common names in a nursery.

Stinger


Gerald "Stinger" Guala, Ph.D.
Keeper of the Herbarium
Fairchild Tropical Garden Research Center
11935 Old Cutler Rd.
Coral Gables, FL 33156-4299

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-----Original Message-----
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John Nelson
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:30 PM
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Subject: ornamental grass-- long shot


TH 1 Nov 1018h

Friends:

        We have been asked to identify an ornamental grass which apparently
has
a trade name (cultivar name?) something like

        "Fhakahatchoe" or "--hatchee"

        I have not seen the grass, but am told that it is some sort of a
plume
grass, very attractive.

        Anybody have a clue?

        Thanks JOHN
--
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A. C. Moore Herbarium
Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina
Columbia SC 29208

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