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Commercial varieties and cultivars

Photo taken by Kurt Stüber

The the year 1992 the Bundessortenamt (Germany) compared 231 different commercially available varieties of snapdragons.
In the Institut für Kulturpflanzenforschung Gatersleben (IPK) a snapdragon herbarium is kept which also comprises specimens of cultivars A new (as of 2. February 1997) list of snapdragon seeds has been compiled by Kai Berger and Kurt Stüber. This list is very extensive and has a size of about 450 KByte. It contains informations about varieties, quantities, colours and prizes for about 1000 combinations. ATTENTION: We have taken the current prices from the latest cataloques but do not guarantee that they are correct. For information about current prizes contact the seed companies directly. See their addresses. There are new breeds of triploid snapdragons available from Japan: Many varieties can also be found in the 1998 cataloque from Thompson & Morgan. Varieties mentioned in the literature (Atkinson NJ et al. 1988):
Some (unnamed) varieties were photographed in nearby gardens or parks. They usually belong to "giant" or "maximum" crosses: Also some varieties are found with a creeping or dangling growth:
This page is part of the Snapdragon Home Page.
The URL of this page is http://www.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/snapdragon/snapdragon_varieties.html
If you have any comments, additions or corrections to this page of general interest you are invited to use the Snapdragon Guest Book. For personal comments please write to the author(s) of this page or to Kurt Stueber.
This page has last been modified on August 27, 1997.