Comments on: Origin of Hosta Species http://blog.plantsgalore.com/?p=319 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:39:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: mrpgc http://blog.plantsgalore.com/?p=319#comment-314174 mrpgc Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:35:55 +0000 http://blog.plantsgalore.com/?p=319#comment-314174 Jo,

Sorry for the extreme delay in responding to your question. I had to suspend my blogging efforts for a while due to other demands on my time.

Anyway, a plant explorer named Sprengel back in 1817 named the plant Funkia in honor of a German botanist, Heinrich Christian Funck. I don’t know exactly when but someone later determined that, at an earlier date, the plant had been named for an Austrian botanist named Host. As in all situations when it comes to naming a plant, the earliest name that can be documented is it. So, we are now Hostaholics instead of Funkiadelics.

Thanks for your question.
Ralph Heiden
aka Mr PGC

]]> By: Jo Busha http://blog.plantsgalore.com/?p=319#comment-272629 Jo Busha Tue, 27 May 2014 00:12:43 +0000 http://blog.plantsgalore.com/?p=319#comment-272629 Do you know when the name Hosta replaced the name Funkia – and why?

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