Thank you Maurice. So far the only thing I've found regarding these original evergreens is that H. aurantiaca had "medium coarse" foliage according to Stout, at least the plant he had under that name. That seems to imply that the wide foliage didn't come from that evergreen, but if not I wonder where it did come from.
BTW, as an aside, apparently the Catalogue of LIfe is the authority used for plant names on ATP and it has both H. aurantiaca var. major and H. major as synonyms of H. fulva var. aurantiaca, citing Hotta for both of the latter two:
http://www.catalogueoflife.org...
Larry, I understood diameter as across a circle and just thought it was a language thing since the author's first language is not English. So I learned something today too when I actually looked it up!
