Viability of Three Genera of Myrtaceae for Cultivation on the British Columbian Southwest Coast
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Abstract
Myrtaceae is a fascinating, evergreen woody plant family that demon-strates significant potential for horticulture in southwestern British Colum-bia. Among the group’s shared characteristics are showy floral parts and leaves containing oil glands. Their main centre of distribution is in Australa-sia, with secondary nodes in southern South America and equatorial Africa. The “type species ” of the family, and notable exception, is Myrtus communis, which is native to the Mediterranean region of Europe and North Africa. Besides the economic importance of this group (there are significant tim-ber-, edible fruit-, spice- and medicinal oil-producing species), some of its members have other valuable attributes, and central among these to horti-culture is public amenity. Among the Australasian members are three genera containing species that are suitable for cultivation in this cool temperate cli-mate. These are Eucalyptus, Callistemon and Leptospermum. The species dis-cussed below are recommended by two main points: their ornamental qualities and their hardiness. The E.H. Lohbrunner Alpine Garden in the UBC Botanical Garden (UBCBG) is well suited for growing many of these plants as it has mineral soil that is free-draining. This soil is similar in composition to what many of them experience in their natural settings. The garden itself is located at an elevation of just 100 metres on a point of land sloping west to the shores of the Strait of Georgia, which divides the mainland and Vancouver Island. It is sheltered from the north and east, the directions which bring the coldest winter winds and wind-driven precipitation. As curator of this garden and its collection of Myrtaceae since 1997, my evaluation of this dynamic group has only just begun. Even so, using longer term data available from the garden’s accessions records, combined with local weather data, I believe that
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".