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Often marketed under wrong names due to multiple Dahlias having very similar names. "Fire and Ice" (sometimes sold as "Fire & Ice") should be the single-bloom mignon Dahlia.
Sometimes incorrectly sold as "Fire N Ice," but that one should be a ball-type Dahlia.

I believe the name "Tick Trefoil" and its other common names such as “Beggar’s Lice” and “Stick Tights” come from the tendency of the seeds to stick to anything even slightly fuzzy.

I agree that the pedicel color can be useful to identify between Red and White but keep in mind that the colour will be showing only when the berries are ripe. When you have flowers or unripe berries, look to the thickness of the pedicel: slender vs thick. White has thick chunky pedicels.

I agree that the pedicel color can be useful to identify between Red and White, but keep in mind that the colour will be showing only when the berries are ripe. When you have flowers or unripe berries, look to the thickness of the pedicel: slender vs thick. Red has quite thin pedicels.

Bought a few of these at Canada Blooms 2014 and had two of them bloom (lost some to rodents). They have a charming yellow inner tone, feathering softly to white mid-petal, with some nice yellow speckles on the white petals (the little bumps on the petal seem to be yellow). They have a green throat. They have large flowers and a wonderful fragrance. The only issue I've had with them is that one had a flower so large (6 inches or more) that the poor stalk couldn't hold it up and it faceplanted in the mud, but I can see this one becoming a favorite in my garden.

These have been doing well in my 6a garden for two years. Made it through one mild winter and one supposedly harsh winter, with a thin layer of straw, no problems.

I do not have to stake these. They have held themselves up fine so far.

These flowers seem to have a quite different form/growth than 'Lucifer' does, as these ones point nearly downward and have a downward curve to the flowers, whereas 'Lucifer' seems to point upward much more. 'George Davison' is a much smaller plant in general than 'Lucifer'.

Has been doing well in my 6a gardens for 4 years now. I mulched it well the first two years, thinking it may be too tender, but I have not mulched it much for the last two years and it has done fine, both with and without mulch.

I also scattered some of the seeds last year, immediately after they became ripe, and to my surprise many have come up this spring and are doing well as first-year seedlings (at least the ones below the rock wall, where it stays a bit moister. The ones above the rock wall never came up. Got too dry, I believe). We had a very cold winter with lots of snow, so the snow cover may have helped. Only time will tell how the seedlings' flower colour will turn out. They look like it will take a few years before they are big enough to flower.

Mine do require a hoop stake to keep them from slouching too much.

The flowers have stunned the neighbors, and I've been asked what it is and where I got it. It has become one of my favorite flower discoveries/purchases.

To help differentiate between the two very similar Mountain Mints (P. virginianum and P. tenuifolium), look for slight hairiness on the stem and leaves, or lack thereof.
P. tenuifolium does not have hairs on the stem or leaves (it is glabrous), whereas P. virginianum has this pubescence/hairiness on the stems and leaves. Other than that, their leaf shape/form is nearly identical.

Regarding rooting: I had read on the net elsewhere that Ceropegia could be rooted in water, but I was very skeptical...with them being dry-loving succulent-type plants and all. All I had done before was to root extra branches in soil. When my linearis suffered from over-watering and I had many stray strands of plant, I planted some the way I normally do, burying a portion below the soil and keeping it watered regularly, but I also placed a few extras into a cup of water. That was two weeks ago, and last night I did notice that some roots had formed! While much of the stem under the water HAD rotted away, as I had expected, most of the stems did grow roots at the node closest to the water surface.

So, it IS possible to root Ceropegia in water.

To identify P. virginianum, note the slight hairyness (pubescence) on the stems and leaves. P. virginianum has this pubescence, whereas P. tenuifolium does not have hairs on the stem (it is glabrous). Other than that, their leaf shape/form is nearly identical.