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Originally Posted by Liberanos5
Excellent idea.....I've only just gotten here and I'm mostly lost. IMNSHO there should be a variety picture index also in the event I visit a garden and the gardener has no idea what varieties they have and I'd be inclined to take a cutting or 2.....I intend to mostly lurk here and thanks to all the experts way in advance......
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Welcome!
Once a variety no longer has a name attached to it there is absolutely no way of IDing it, with very few exceptions.
There are perhaps betgween 15 and 20,000 known named varieties.
Take large fruited pink varieties, for example. There are hundreds of them. Take long red paste types, several hundred, take gold/red bicolors, many look the same, but differ with respect to production, taste, etc., and there are several hundreds of them as well.
If someone wants to know more about a named variety, that's usually not a problem, with of course some exceptions there as well.
So, a great idea but just not workable.
Carolyn