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punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 13,691

Sedums are no longer called Sedums, but are now called Hylotelephiums.

That will make life easier then.

How can you lie there and think of England
When you don't even know who's in the team

S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,314

    Noooooooooo! How are the ignorant among us ever to catch up? I like sedums, they look after themselves. Its a conspiracy like crazy spelling to confuse the unwary and I'm not joining in.

    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,768

    OMG ... how am I supposed to remember that ... I'm 27!!! image

    Hi-low whats?  


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 16,665

    From wikipedia

    Sedum telephium, often called Hylotelephium telephium,

    Not in this garden it isn't..image

  • pansyfacepansyface Posts: 21,890

    THEY ARE LUCKY TO EVEN GET CALLED SEDUMS HERE.

    I CALLED THEM POPPER PLANTS WHEN I WAS FIVE, AND I STILL DO.

    Apophthegm -  a big word for a small thought.
    If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,114

    Remember when they changed crysanths to dendrasomething and there was an outcry so they changed it back.   Taxonomy gone mad.  Sedums for me.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,497

    Not only are some Sedum now called Hylotelephium but others are now Petrosedum and Phedimus image

    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 3,845

    ... and most asters are now called Symphyotrichum;

    Dicentra spectabilis is Lamprocapnos spectabilis,

    Etc.

    "That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." image

    You are invited to a virtual visit of my garden (in English or in French).
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    I will be sticking to the names that I and other over 27s know.

    SW Scotland
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,314

    Oh Joyce! I'm over 27 and I don't know the old names. I like wildflowers, they have much easier and nicer names, stuff like Germander Speedwell, Dove's foot cranesbill, Rose-bay Willow herb...........

    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,497

    ......and as well as Hylotelephium,Petrosedum and Phedimus there are still some which are called Sedum!

    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
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