Hippeastrum equestere?

hornig@usadatanet.net hornig@usadatanet.net
Mon, 29 Mar 2004 05:25:16 PST
Whatever these orange hippeastrums are, they certainly exist (in variants)
on the passalong plant circuit.  I got one from a friend as "Bermuda Lily"
(it isn't blooming now, so I can't show particulars, but it's very much
like what Cynthia Mueller posted).  More recently, I purchased some bulbs
on eBay (yes, I admit it) of a plant with similar coloration but somewhat
broader petals (based on the seller's photo, which was of her actual
plant).  So, whatever it is, it's out there making the rounds  -

Ellen Hornig

Original Message:
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From: Cynthia Mueller c-mueller@tamu.edu
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:50:20 -0600
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [pbs] Hippeastrum equestere?


Lee:  yes, these are very similar.  Yours has slightly narrower petals,
but that can't make that much difference.  Its anthers, tho, are small
and yellowish like mine, but not like the large, mauvish anthers on the
example from Monticello.  This is certainly an orange flower!  I'm
thankful to have raised some from seed, because the parent bulb now has
virus streaks on the leaves.

Cynthia Mueller

>>> wpoulsen@pacbell.net 03/29/04 01:17AM >>>
Cynthia, look at the photo I uploaded under the species name of H.  
puniceum. <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> I 

was told at some point in the past that H. equestre is just a synonym 

for H. puniceum. My photo didn't turn out that well, but your photo  
looks a lot like the flowers on my plants. It's the most orange-y Hipp.
 
I've ever seen. I got my bulbs in Maui, Hawaii.

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10

On Mar 28, 2004, at 6:11 PM, Cynthia Mueller wrote:

> More on the "orange" Hippeastrum.  Today I was looking at a very  
> similar
> bloom on a Hipp. equestere from Monticello, grown by Dr. William C.
> Welch, College Station, Tx.  They are almost identical in size,
color,
> etc. but the anthers on the just-opened Monticello flowers are very
> large and colored a dusty mauve.  Are one or both of these
equestere?
> Do they have variants?  Please help - Kevin or Alan - your thoughts?
>
> http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/ 
> Hippeastrum_Orange_Mystery_cwm.jpg
>
>
> Cynthia W. Mueller
>
>
>
>>>> c-mueller@tamu.edu 03/27/04 08:26PM >>>
> My seed strain of "orange Hippeastrum" has begun to bloom.  The
parent
> plant was found in the woods near Sealy (Central Texas), planted out
> from a grandmother's garden.  There are only two blooms per stalk,
> leaves are small and rather low.  This is the plant that has a
> cream-colored "mask" at the throat.  So far (several) seem true to
> seed,
> altho I do have other strains at work in the garden.  More pics to
> follow of  them.
> Who could tell me what this is?
>
http://ibiblio.pbs/pbswiki/files/…

>
>
>
> Cynthia W. Mueller
> College Station, TX
> Zone 8b-9
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