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Aug 2, 2013 2:43 PM CST
Name: Lin Vosbury
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)

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Evan: Thanks, I'd missed the caption in SongofJoy's photo in the database that it was two separate plants in that pot!


Dave: LOL, I agree that plants are mislabeled all the time; some of the same exact plant with two totally different names, others that are of one genus with a label for an entirely different genus! I was told that most of the large wholesale nurseries here in Florida have workers who don't understand or speak english and they quite often put the wrong tag/label on plants. I guess there's no quality control when it comes to plant labeling sometimes. I was at Home Depot a year or so ago back when they carried a lot of the Exotic Angel plants (a nursery near Orlando). I was buying a Hoya plant that had a label in it for Sansevieria and I noticed many, many plants that were labeled incorrectly. When I went to check out I mentioned it to the cashier and she asked me if I minded waiting a sec because the lady from the nursery was there and she wanted me to point out to her the ones I thought were mislabeled. The nursery person came over and I showed her the Hoya plant I purchased with the incorrect tag and she asked me to walk back with her to point out others. She walked around pulling tag after tag after tag and she thanked me for bringing it to her attention. She said there are times when customers will pull a tag off a plant to read the information and then stick it back into the nearest plant at hand, which may be wrong; but she also said that they had employees at the nursery who made labeling mistakes now and again ... she was just stunned to find so many mislabeled in that one shipment.

By the way, regarding that Aglaonema 'Crete' ... I've seen it spelled both 'Crete' and 'Creta' and I have no clue which is actually correct!
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