Hortaholic said:The Plants of the world link Tiffany @purpleinopp provided (thanks !) shows it as having 6 synonyms in 3 other genera in the Malvaceae. Even the taxonomists have trouble nailing it down!๐ง
Looks like Tarasa is a strictly South American genus. Given that the Netherlands have been a hotspot for horticulture since before the Americas were discovered I wouldn't be surprised at any oddity showing up there. They're always searching out new plants. And breeding them to improve their horticultural merits.
Ann
Best Ann :
in the west of Holland indeed they breed and 'develop' new races etc of plants/flowers. This particular one was found in the middle of nature along the river Maas [in the Southeast] . As far as I know it was never a commercial horticulture one. But I hoped somebody here would recognize .
Because of digging [to give the river more space] very old seeds did sprout and so this one was discovered next to some more adventives.
Until about 75 years ago in this area also many more 'strangers' were found because of seeds , who arrived from Belgium at the riverbank . There was a big area of wool exploitation in Belgium these times.This wool was imported from Australia and elsewhere.
And the river Maas transported all those seeds [originally from Australia etc]to the south of Holland.
Green greetings--Rien
