Miscanthus: a fascinating genus

None of the miscanthus species and cultivars in our grasses assortment is rhizomatous.

Even not crosslings from miscanthus sacchariflorus x sinensis  like Memory and Ballerina.

Most of them are very winterhardy like:

- miscanthus x giganteus

- miscanthus olygostachyus

- miscanthus sinensis

  and some sp. sinensis condensatus

- miscanthus transmorrisonensis

- miscanthus yakushimensis

and hybrids from these species

- miscanthus flavidus (cv. Taiwan) seems to be hardy by bold frost with -13 below zero.

  This plant is  still green at the end of January

Less hardy are:

- miscanthus nepalensis.

  Survived bold frost in 2008/2009 with - 11 below zero but was rather damaged.

  The regrowth was 60 - 70 % in hight.

- some of the condensatus cv.s were damaged that same winter like Cabaret.

  Cabaret survived, Cosmopolitan had less damage, Emerald Giant no damage at all.

MISCANTHUS SINENSIS

Most of the cultivars we know come from miscanthus sinensis.

Or they are hybrids from or with this species.

A great deal of miscanthus (x) sinensis cultvars until now among the oldest and best known come from the famous plantbreeder Ernst Pagels from Leer in

the North of Germany.

THE ERNST PAGELS MISCANTHUS LIST:

The cultivars of the latest list we have. And some of the sorts he listed out.

We try to translate the names and add some remarkeble parts of Pagels descriptions.

LOW GROUP:

Afrika                      Has special charm

China                      The most elegant of all

Nippon                    Brownleafed Gracillimus type

Sioux                       A wildrelated sort

MEDIUM HIGH GROUP:

Vorläufer (Fore Runner)  

Ferner Osten (Far East)   The most important early blooming

Kleine Fontäne (Little Fountain)   

Graziella

Kleine Silberspinne (Little Silver Spider)

Ghana            Different from all others

Hermann Müssel    Very important medium high type

Roter Pfeil (Red Arrow)    Approaches the ideal redcolouring

HIGH GROUP:

Juli (July)    Actually a japonicus type

Silberspinne (Silver Spider)

Grosse Fontäne (Big Fountain)    A giant

Silberturm (Silver Tower)

Sirene

Wetterfahne (Weather Vane)   A brother of Zwergelefant

Zwergelefant (Litlle Elephant)  A son of Juli (July)    

                                                 Beautifull big blooming, first like balloons

Pünktchen (Little Dot)

Undine                       A high sister of Graziella

Flamingo                    Special elegance                 

Malepartus                 Still ever the most beautifull red blooming                       

Giraffe                        A worthy Zebrinus

Kaskade (Cascade)   The name tells all

Kupferberg (Copper Mountain)  Rather new, but very recommendable

Zebrinus Strictus

Prof. Richard Hansen    A proud, fastuous high type

LISTED OUT GROUP:

Äthopien

David

Flammenmeer (Sea of Flames)    The earliest redcolouring

Gold und Silber (Gold and Silver)

Goliath

Herkules

Krater (Crater)       Survives winterstorms

Poseidon                The most lush growing one

Positano

Rotsilber (Redsilver)

Samurai

Spätgrün (Late Green)

Silberstreif (Silverstripe)

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