Dear Mary Sue, I'd like to reply to Mary Sue's query, regarding information and verification of the two Cyrtanthus species mentioned below, since I was responsible for downloading the picture on the wiki, which info I should have supplied long ago. Originally the so called Cyrtanthus capensis plant was given to me by Jim Forrest by that name, and with no other information available for the genus Cyrtanthus at that time, never thought much more about it. In hindsight and after some research and reading more about the Cyrtanthus in the "REVIEW OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN SPECIES OF CYRTANTHUS" by C.Reid and R.Allen Dyer, (recently acquired) I have doubts about the name of this plant on the wiki. I can't find any information about C. capensis either, even in the review, although Michael Vassar mentioned C.capense in the IBS gallery and Traub (1972) mentioned C.capense as a sub for C. speciosus. I have come to the conclusion that the picture in the wiki under that name is most likely a hybrid of the many C.eucallus crosses Jim Forrest made, and a beautiful colour and texture it turned out. The Cyrtanthus glaucophyllus is really a more robust and larger colour variation form of Cyrtanthus sanguineus, sometimes called Cyrt.sang.var.glaucophyllus, acquired from another South African collector by Jim a long time ago. I have never ever come across this vigorous and exquisite plant before, which is easy to grow and all our plants have come true from seed. Anyway, I will add info for Cyrt.sang.var.glaucophyllus and replace the Cyrtanthus capensis by that name (in the image) with the correct title/name. Tomorrow I will reply to Mary Sue's question about the delightful, but delicate Tropaeolum species, especially the charming species T. azureum, of which I have been reasonably successful in raising and growing from seed. It has been a very busy and sometimes frustrating mail-order season and just finished planting all the bulbs again, which seem to get harder every season. (hmm). Still alive and kicking Bill Dijk PS: please note the change of email address. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Sue Ittner" <msittner@mcn.org> > To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 2:37 PM > Subject: [pbs] New Cyrtanthus pictures > > >> Hi All, >> >> There are a lot of new Cyrtanthus pictures on the wiki. Cameron McMaster >> sent me some new ones of winter rainfall species, including some rare >> ones >> and I added pictures of some of the summer rainfall species from the >> Eastern Cape that he had on his CD including the one that is named after >> him. There are too many to list. Just look for pictures from Cameron to >> find the new ones. Also can anyone verify the names used by Bill Dijk for >> a couple of his pictures and if so supply some information about them: >> >> Cyrtanthus capensis >> Cyrtanthus glaucophyllus >> >> Paul, are you out there? >> >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… >> >> Between Cameron and Bill we now have a lot of good information and >> pictures of this genus on the wiki. >> >> Mary Sue >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> >> >> >> -- >> Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.6 - Release Date: 6/05/2005 >> >> >