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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Chad Knepp wrote:

> Well, I can think of a couple of reasons.  Elaeagnus has an 'a' in it
> that I forget a lot myself.  Eden does accommodate 'alternative'

Of course, and I should have known that, having spent 16 years as a landscape 
contractor
and planted many elaeagnus: fruitlandi and angustifolia. I know the 
fruitlandi is a commercial variety,
probably not a patented cultivar. I am sure it was derived from the wild 
version very common around here,
usually called Russian Olive and gets leggy, sometimes viny and bears profuse 
amounts of delicious sour/sweet fruit.

> spelling but gives better results with accurate input.  I also don't
> think 'fruitlandi' is in the current dataset.  Hmmm... something to
> add?  

Definitely if it a native variety and not a commercial nursery cultivar. The 
American Nurseryman
and American Nurseryman's Association might have info on this in their 
website.

> Not really sure why those particular plants score so highly.  I think
> it would be good to have an optional display of what parts a
> particular search matched for analyzing query performance.  I'm

Good idea.

> already missing 'scores' to see if these are really that much higher
> than the various Elaeagnaceae I would expect it to match.  Maybe
> everything is score 1 which is a very low level of certainty.


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