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- ↑ Welcome to the Hardy Plant Society
- ↑ "RHS Green Manual". RHS. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
- ↑ "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. b10.
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. Lancaster.
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