- First described
- 2012
- Type
- collection photo tour multiple unidentified clones
Origin
A photographic tour of the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory's leucophylla holdings (Davis, CA), conducted by Mike Wang during a December 2012 visit. The curator at the time was Ernesto.
This is a survey-style entry — individual clones are not annotated with named-clone identities, except that one greenhouse-grown plant is labeled "Hurricane Creek White".
Tour structure
- Greenhouse plants (heated + supplemental light, rooftop on a science building): typical clones, plus a Hurricane Creek White showing yellow-petiole tinge.
- Outdoor plants: some clones likely match the greenhouse set; not individually identified.
- Curator portrait: Ernesto.
Standout observations
- Greenhouse light/heat amplifies HCW yellow-petiole tinge — a phenotype not commonly seen in CA outdoor culture.
- UCD has both indoor and outdoor leucophylla — a useful side-by-side reference if specific clone-IDs can be tied to named clones in the Mike-Wang corpus.
Photos
8 Mike-Wang photos from December 2012.
Standout traits
- Documents UCD's leucophylla holdings — a less-photographed institutional CP collection
- Greenhouse-grown specimens (heated + supplementally lit) showing accelerated growth
- Outdoor reference clones for comparison
- Mike's HCW shot shows yellow petiole tinge under warm-lit greenhouse conditions
Cultivation
Mike's incidental observations:
- Greenhouse heat + supplemental light produces accelerated leucophylla growth (HCW trap was large + fuzzy).
- Yellow tinge in HCW petiole appears under warm + supplemental- light conditions.
Photos (8)
Naming
Photographic tour, not a clone-by-clone catalog. Specific clones are not individually named in the thread; one is identified as "S. leucophylla Hurricane Creek White".