Mary Sue, Beautiful pictures you have taken. Especialy the forms of Triteleia grandiflora ssp. Howellii, Triteleia Hendersonii, Triteleia_lilacina, and Triteleia_montana. I don't think T. Tiger, named by The Robinetts, is an Ixioidis Form, because it has no offsets( The T. Ixiodis have ) it is blooming earlier than all the T.Ixioidis forms, and I didn't succeed to make crossings with it with the T.Ixioidis forms. Best regards. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 21:01:45 -0700 From: Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> Subject: [pbs] Triteleia To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20060512180754.01d65738@mail.mcn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi, I've added a lot of pictures to the Triteleia wiki page. Some of you may remember that I've been trying to understand, grow, and/or see in the wild many of our native Triteleias. It is a genus I love and at the moment it is blooming away in my garden. Three cheers for it! Recently we took a few days to view some of the Northern California wildflowers and saw some wonderful displays of flowers. Diana Chapman has raved about Table Mountain near Oroville for a number of years and we finally made it. The day we spent there will be etched in my memory somewhat like the day we saw Romulea sabulosa near Nieuwoudtville in a wet year. It was one of the more beautiful displays of wildflower I have seen. This year late rains meant there were annuals and bulbs blooming together. Table Mountain is flat as you might expect from the name and the soils are thin so that there isn't a lot of competition from trees or shrubs. There were masses of different colors of low blooming flowers. We also went to Bidwell Park in Chico at Diana's suggestion and saw a lot of nice native bulbs there and also nice displays of flowers in the Vina Plains, a Nature Conservancy preserve we just viewed from the road. I'll be adding pictures to the wiki probably slowly of some of the bulbs we saw in habitat. This is the first lot, the Triteleias. While I was at it I added pictures I hadn't gotten around to adding before, took off some older pictures that I thought I could improve on and added some new ones, including of some things blooming at the moment. The changes are a lot to announce so maybe those interested should just look at the whole page. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Triteleia bridgesii - new habitat picture from Bidwell, better picture of garden plants, corms Triteleia dudleyi - this one I didn't realize I never added to the wiki. It's found at high elevations, but I still am able to flower it so it obviously adapts even without winter cold. Triteleia hendersonii - this is getting more and more flowers every year so I replaced pictures to show this. I have some growing in a large pot in my raised bed with a Brunsvigia that has never bloomed. I didn't purposely do this, nor did I plant that Cyclamen coum that appeared as well. The later blooms for months in that same pot and then the Triteleia when the leaves of the others have disappeared. This Trit is fabulous. Triteleia hycinthina - improved pictures and pictures of corms Triteleia ixioides scabra - corms Triteleia ixioides Tiger from the Robinetts was supposedly grown from seed collected at Table Mountain so I added a picture of one taken there. My field guide called it T. ixioides ssp. unifolia, but that name wasn't recognized in Jepson as a separate species. Triteleia laxa -- We saw a white one in Bidwell park which is very unusual and a wonderful display being pollinated by black Pipevine Swallowtails near Vina. Also a picture of the corms I think of Queen Fabiola. I didn't make a note of which form. It's one of those laxas that multiplies vegetatively in huge numbers every year. Triteleia lilacina - Another favorite of mine with the sparkly center. This one we saw in Bidwell and on Table Mountain so have added pictures taken each place (one with a pollinator) and a picture of the corms which are more fibrous than most. Triteleia montana- Better picture and added a picture of the corms Triteleia peduncularis- Picture of the corms. The one I grow produces a lot of small sized cormlets that take a few years to bloom. Mary Sue ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php End of pbs Digest, Vol 40, Issue 10 ***********************************