Talk:Calluna

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To survive, heather must be planted in acidic soil. Scotland possesses much of this, so the heather plant really thrives there. The conditions are not so suitable in the United States, however, and the southwestern states such as California are unable to grow any heather. 05:46, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Question for a Botanist or Other Expert

I've seen several patches of Calluna vulgaris on Cape Cod. Is this due to the acidity of the Cape's soil, or it's heathland qualities? Matthew 06:31, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Probably both, and more importantly, that someone planted it there - MPF 21:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

possibly, but it's naturalized all over New England, and, acc. to the USDA, in the northeast midwest US and Washington state (!) as well. ( http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch?keywordquery=Calluna+vulgaris&mode=sciname&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 ) NaySay 17:35, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I have a pot with heather but I do not know how often I should water it. Any help? Vasilikim 15:19, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

How do i propergate heather, do i take cuttings or collect seed ?. Jonloz (talk) 14:24, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Your heather are both probably long-dead by now! But as a general tip for others who may be reading this: the heather flourishes in Scotland, therefore watering should mimic the rainfall that is typical to Scotland; frequent watering, in other words.

Nuttyskin (talk) 14:44, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

citations?

This page badly needs some relevant scientific litriture links as at present it contains no citations at all.

Page move

Heather currently redirects to Calluna. Someone wants to change this, to make Heather a disambiguation page. I think that Calluna is the primary meaning of "Heather". People who watch this page might like to comment at Talk:Heather (disambiguation). 128.232.1.193 (talk) 16:24, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Heathergems

I see the entry about Heathergems has been removed, and would like to give my support to the original edit. This is an authentic, bona-fide application for heather stems that most visitors to Scotland in the past 50years will be familiar with. The company's website is http://www.heathergems.com/, and a You Tube video outlining the process can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsZ43wHRUmM I suppose that there is the issue of commercial promotion to deal with here, but I don't think that was User:Paul venter's purpose, since he makes contributions to a variety of botanical articles. Plantsurfer (talk) 14:07, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

The heathergems mention made me curious so I researched it further. They just appear to be made by one company. The fact that they are the only company that makes them is literally their selling point. They use computers and resin to produce them. It appears to be a fairly modern thing. 50 years is 1969, not 1869 after all. Therefore, I would say this is clearly an ad and obviously needs to be removed. Many creative applications for plants exist but if everyone who made interesting jewelry out of a plant got to be including on Wikipedia it would be absolute chaos in an instant. Basil989 (talk) 02:24, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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Cultural reference

One of the best-known popularly-held beliefs about heather (certainly in Scotland) is that it will not grow upon Scottish dead.

This may simply be a reflection that, widespread and luxuriant as the heather is in Scotland, the spaces between its growth are surely even more numerous; as numerous, uncounted in fact, as all the Scots who have fallen in battle throughout that land's long and bloody history, and may lie still where they fell.

Nuttyskin (talk) 14:52, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Rename and reclassify to Calluna vulgaris

This page is about the species of heather called Calluna vulgaris, but it is named Calluna and in Wikidata is associated with the genus Calluna, not the dpecies. This is odd and it makes the 'other languages' links fail, so it should be fixed. Rp (talk) 08:22, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

@Rp: see below. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:06, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Cannot add languages - proposal to merge with Calluna (genus)

I attempted to add Polish article to the language list but every time I try there's an error message saying that the article is already linked to another item, namely Q26615. The problem is that EN wiki doesn't have separate dedicated article on Calluna vulgaris (species). Instead, it redirects here, which is supposedly a site for Calluna (genus) - a monotypical genus which only comprises one species - Calluna vulgaris. It is a mess.--31.60.35.38 (talk) 06:25, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

See below. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:06, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Cannot merge languages

It seems that the article is available in 70 languages at the moment, at least thats what I see when I look at the german article Besenheide. The english article only lists 12 languages at the moment. Seems that this has to do with the redirection from Calluna vulgaris. Tuberizer (talk) 20:15, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

@Tuberizer: the policy of different language wikis over monotypic genera differs. Some have one article, either at the genus by default as per this wikipedia or at the species; others have two articles, one for the genus and one for the species although there's really nothing different to say about them. Wikidata has a policy of only allowing its items to link to one article per wiki, regardless of the true relationship. So it's Wikidata that really causes the problem. It's explained in more detail at User:Peter coxhead/Wikidata issues#Non-1:1 relationships. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:05, 13 August 2023 (UTC)