Ted Green
Hoya grower, collector and botanical author based in Hawaii.
Why this person appears in Hoya Library
Hoya grower, collector and botanical author based in Hawaii.
Growing and sharing Hoyas
Ted Green (1921–2022), also recorded as Theodore Green, was a Hoya grower, collector and botanical author based in Hawaii. The International Plant Names Index records his botanical author abbreviation as T.Green.
In “The Late Great Ted Green”, Rachel Colette Conroy describes his collecting expeditions, exchanges with other growers and work on Hoya identification. Her memorial also describes an archive of journals, drawings, catalogs, correspondence, plant-transfer records and herbarium material maintained through Green Plant Research. It offers a starting point for tracing both his published work and the history of cultivated plants.[1]
A dated record of his nursery
The archived Rare Hoyas catalog identifies its revision date as 9 March 2008. It combines plant offerings with Green’s notes about names, collecting and cultivation. This edition preserves what the nursery said and offered at that time; it is not a statement of current availability.[2]
Catalog names are useful leads when researching an old label or plant transfer. A name in a sales list does not by itself establish the identity or continuous propagation history of a plant sold under that name today. The original dated listing should be read alongside other records for the particular material.
Botanical writing
Green contributed taxonomic writing as well as horticultural accounts. IPNI records Hoya callistophylla T.Green, published in Fraterna 13(4), page 2, in 2000. The author abbreviation identifies his role in publishing a botanical name; it does not automatically make him the collector or breeder of every plant carrying it.[3]
His work can therefore be followed through several kinds of evidence: original publications for botanical names, catalogs for historical commercial usage, and collection or correspondence records for individual plants. Each answers a different part of the history.
Sources and further reading
- Conroy, Rachel Colette (2022). The Late Great Ted Green. Stemma 4(2), pp. 27–49; biographical and archive account on pp. 27–29.
- Green, Ted / Green: Plant Research (2008). Rare Hoyas catalog. Revised 9 March 2008; archived 2 May 2008. The dated catalog is a historical source.
- International Plant Names Index. Green, Ted, author record 14746-1. Checked 25 October 2026.