In 1963 (just one year after the article) an Australian was the proud owner of a plant of this name having imported it from the USA. In 1975 Bill Morris( the first Australian Trustee of the BSI) must have acquired an offset because he pointed out it had the wrong name! It looked nothing like the photograph in 1962. By this time the true B. 'Gerda' was in Australia. 10 years later in 1985 I stumbled across this "not Gerda" plant and it was decided to call it B. 'Royal Vase'. B. 'Royal Vase' has links with B. vittata and thus B. 'Breauteana'!! (see Uncle Derek Says item on B. 'Breauteana')
In 1995 I came across yet another "B . Gerda" imported from the USA from Don Beadle. Don must have ESP because I then found out that he was changing this name to B. 'Grande' (see BCR page 55). B. 'Grande' appears similar to a B. amoena and could easily be B. 'Gerda' F2 (That is seed raised from a B.'Gerda' plant).
I would like to know how B. 'Estrella' fits into this complex. "
