Oh, so that’s what happened to the UCI collection. I used to go down there (I’m in Livermore CA) to
look at the bulbs in the shade houses. One time I met Graham Duncan, curator of bulbs at Kirstenbosch,
who was helping to identify the bulbs. I haven't visited the UCI Arboretum since finding most of the
bulbs gone and the shade houses in disrepair.
Kirby Fong
On Jan 6, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Paul LICHT <plicht@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> The UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley received almost the entire bulb
> collection from Irvine in 2003-4. Sadly, most proved of limited value to us
> because data had been lost or mixed and worse,many of the bulbs had been
> eaten by rodents or if alive, mislabeled. We have what's left.
>
> Paul
>
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