Feedback request: Lithospermum officinale (2717)

[hallucigenia]

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Specimen #273287

Taxon:	Boraginaceae: Lithospermum officinale var. pseudo-latifolium
Filed in taxon folder:	Boraginaceae: Lithospermum officinale var. pseudo-latifolium
Collected by:	Rev. Edward Shearburn Marshall
Collection date:	1/8/1910
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight, Garden of 'illegible' I.O.W.
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	Raised from seed of the authentic I.O.W. plant Legit E.S.Marshall

Documented by hallucigenia on 4^th April 2009.

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hallucigenia wrote

Cannot fit the grower to any on the collectors list.

[David Price]

Nowhere on the label does it say "Garden of ...." It's best to stick to what has actually been written.

" ... authentic I of Wight plant, at W. Monkton". I believe West Monkton is where Marshall lived in his old age.