Holmskioldia sanguinea 25/4 Restock and on the herbarium sheet

and on the herbarium sheet that anchors the name two different plants were mounted side by side

The pawpaw is a small

Even without berries the plant earns a place

or a native planting

until the University of Illinois plantsman Dr

Holmskioldia sanguinea 25/4 Restock and on the herbarium sheetFrom the warm lower slopes of the Himalayas, where they scramble through scrub from India and Nepal on into Bhutan, comes one of the more theatrical shrubs you can grow. The genus carries the name of Johan Theodor Holmskiold, an eighteenth century Danish botanist, while sanguinea nods at the blood red flush the flowers take on with age. For years they sat in Verbenaceae. Botanists have since moved them into Lamiaceae, the mint family, which makes them