In The Garden: Baja Shrub Identification

Please help me ID this shrub that was recently photographed in Baja California Sur.

Thanks kindly,

Anne Kivari

 

Cascabela thevetia, formerly Thevetia peruviana.
Welcome to the Forum !

 

Gracias!

 

Hi Tyrlych - what's the reasoning for the change? Most sites (e.g. GRIN) still list Cascabela thevetia as a synonym, with Thevetia peruviana as the accepted name.

 

Hi Michael - I may be wrong of course but it seems that ThePlantList website is more quick in publishing changes.
This page http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-203891 also contains link to a Kew record.

 

See this article abstract - http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3417/0026-6493(2007)94[298:APAOTC]2.0.CO;2

 

The 2007 article is listed on the GRIN site also.

 

Thanks! Looks like it's a matter of opinion, rather than a split needed to maintain monophyly.

I fear I've found the Plant List is not a particularly reliable source, unfortunately.

 

But now the question comes, what is a reliable source?

 

For things that are certain, one has to make a judgment call and go with what one thinks is best at the time. There are a number of older Botany Photo of the Day entries that I would now consider out of date either for name or family name reasons.

 

Despite the frequently stated desire for it plant subjects often don't lend themselves to one stop reference shopping.