Again, here comes as essay rather than a sound bite.
Gad zooks, it's even worse than I thought. I just looked at a grower's seed catalog and picked Impatiens walleriana. It listed Impreza™ Hybrid Series. Offerings included Cherry Splash, South Beach Mix, Pink Splash, and Mix.
Then I googled Impreza and found that PanAmerican Seeds was the breeder. Their website
http://www.panamseed.com/serie... lists 18 varieties [botanical sic] - individual colors and specialty mixes.
And each "variety" (except for mixes) has a cultivar name!!! Only in one place that I found accidentally does BallHort (PanAm's partner) list all the cultivar names, so Cherry Splash is really 'PAS774965'
However, if you go to PamAm or BallHort directly and look up the series, each "variety" shows as 'PAS774961'
Neither PamAm nor BallHort list it as a hybrid, just Impatiens walleriana.
So not only can we not trust any seed catalog, we can't even trust the breeder to give the correct info on their sites. WE have a lot of work to sort this out; requires an ghastly amount of research and possible contacts with the breeders.
Most Sublime and Omnipotent ATP Dave,
Cloning or duplicating plant names and details would be a life saver
. I'd really like it if it were possible to do both the plant name and the details together for approval, especially for seeds, but even for plants in a series (like Suntory's SunParasol or Proven Winners' Scooter) . Otherwise, I'm afraid that it would get terribly confusing (at least for me) to make sure that the right details went with the plant name if I were doing a bunch together.
On another topic, going back to Evan's Goldraush, there may need to be more than one trade name line. There is already the possibility for listing multiple cultivars (which is botanically impossible), but no way to list multiple trade names which is possible. Putting the extra trade names in the common name field isn't really the same as having Coleus as a common name. Could the Trade Name field be renamed to Sold As with the ability to add multiple lines?
