CDsSister's blog: Wondering about Sermpervivum History

Posted on Apr 20, 2018 3:52 PM

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In the following resource I found a 1927 hybrid I can only "assume " the parent plants are historic Semps

87.'Alpha' ... GEORG ARENDS (DE), 1927 or 1929 ? ... SEMPERVIVUM (S. ARACHNOIDEUM × TECTORUM)

Hybridizers of Sempervivum
In my quest to find the ealiest known semps I happened upon a resource which is providing food for thought

Found on the Cubits Website managed by Lynn Smith aka ValleyLynn
http://cubits.org/sedumandsemp...
Welcome to Sempervivum's World at http://miklanek.tripod.com/MCS...
© CD 7193-4-15-1 Created by M.C.S, Last updated: Wed 31 May 2000, Slovakia

Earliest found Hybrid
20s
87.'Alpha' ... GEORG ARENDS (DE), 1927 or 1929 ? ... SEMPERVIVUM (S. ARACHNOIDEUM × TECTORUM)
1194. 'Gloriosum' = (syn. 'Malby's Hybrid No. 2') ... MALBY (UK), 1920s or 1972 ? ... SEMPERVIVUM TECTORUM ?
2193. 'Nigrum' ... ? (UK), 1920s ... SEMPERVIVUM TECTORUM
2432. 'Peterson's Ornatum' ... PETERSON (UK), 1926 ... SEMPERVIVUM
30s
2288. 'Ornatum' = (syn. S. MARMOREUM 'Ornatum', S. MARMOREUM 'Rubrifolium
Ornatum') ... SELWYN DUREZ ? (?), 1885 or 1930s ? ... SEMPERVIVUM
2719. 'Rheinkiesel' ... GOOS (DE) and KOENEMANN (DE), 1937 ... SEMPERVIVUM
2822. 'Rubin' = (incor. 'Rubim') ... GOOS (DE) and KOENEMANN (DE), 1937 ...
SEMPERVIVUM (S. TECTORUM × MARMOREUM ? )
3033. 'Smaragd' ... GOOS (DE) and KOENEMANN (DE), 1937 ... SEMPERVIVUM
2823. 'Rubin Rose' ... GOOS (DE) and KOENEMANN (DE), 1938 ... SEMPERVIVUM
3288. 'Topaz' = (incor. 'Topas') ... GOOS (DE) and KOENEMANN (DE), 1937 ...
SEMPERVIVUM
40s
644. 'Commander Hay' ... LEN A. EARL (UK), 1943 or 1958 ? ... SEMPERVIVUM
TECTORUM (S. TECTORUM 'Ornatum' × TECTORUM subsp. TECTORUM
'Atropurpureum')
50s
62.'Alcmene' = (incor. 'Alemene') ... NICHOLAS MOORE (UK), 1950s ...
SEMPERVIVUM
275. 'Beaute' ... BILL KEEN (UK), 1954 ... SEMPERVIVUM
358. 'Black Claret' ... NICHOLAS MOORE (UK), 1952 ... SEMPERVIVUM TECTORUM
(S. TECTORUM 'Nigrum' × TECTORUM 'Gloriosum')
747. 'Dark Point' ... NICHOLAS MOORE (UK), 1953 ... SEMPERVIVUM
1324. 'Hall's' ... ERNEST HEPWORTH (UK), 1956 ... SEMPERVIVUM

Hybridizers of interest to me:
Payne
782. 'Densum' ... HELEN E. PAYNE (US), 1962 ... SEMPERVIVUM

Vaughn
2259. 'Old Lace' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1963 ... SEMPERVIVUM
2260. 'Old Rose' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1962 or 1969 ? ... SEMPERVIVUM

382. 'Blue Burgundy' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1969 ... SEMPERVIVUM
567. 'Cherry Vanilla' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1968 or 1977 ? ...
SEMPERVIVUM
(S. 'Silvertone' × S. ? )
1273. 'Greenwich Time' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1968 ... SEMPERVIVUM
1603. 'Jungle Shadows' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1969 ... SEMPERVIVUM *
SR-1976
2059. 'Minuet' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US) ... SEMPERVIVUM
2259. 'Old Lace' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1963 ... SEMPERVIVUM
2260. 'Old Rose' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1962 or 1969 ? ... SEMPERVIVUM
2990. 'Silver Ice' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1969 ... SEMPERVIVUM
(S. 'Silverine' × S. ? )
3002. 'Silver Song' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1969 or 1980 ? ... SEMPERVIVUM
(S. 'Silverine' × S. ? )
(syn. 'Silver Spirits') = 'Silver Spring'
3005. 'Silvertone' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1968 ... SEMPERVIVUM
(S. 'Purdy's 50-5' × S. 'Silverine')
3060. 'Soothsayer' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1969 ... SEMPERVIVUM
(S. 'Cleveland Morgan' × S. ? )
3110. 'Stars and Stripes' ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US) ... SEMPERVIVUM
(S. 'Silverine' × S. ? )
3003. 'Silver Spring' = (syn. 'Silver Spirits') ... KEVIN C. VAUGHN (US), 1974
... SEMPERVIVUM

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