Plant Guardians

Francoa sonchifolia ‘Doctor Tom Smith’


Description:
Introduced in 1998 from the Aberdeen garden of Dr. Thomas Smith, former senior lecturer in Physics at the University of Aberdeen and award-winning gardener. Tom, a physicist, had been a passionate gardener all his life and designed gardens for other people/organisations.

Threat Status: Threatened In Cultivation As assessed by the Plant Heritage Threatened Plants Programme. For more details see www.plantheritage.org.uk/conservation/threatened-plants/

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