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Dear EU members,

There will be a first part distribution next weekend, likely the 22nd to 24th. Please contact me immediately if you've got items that need to be part of that first run.

My (sadly deceased last fall) "Albuca spiralis" looked flower&spike wise very similar, but was somewhat spiralled even in my dark falls - see here https://www.flickr.com/photos/150325868@N06/23716684398/in/album-72157677456980444/ . Hard to believe that a spiralis in Spain would be so straight.

on the other hand, that hardcore curling and compact growth of that "fizzle sizzle" cultivar seen advertised was like a very different plant. a tetraploid, maybe?

I could as well say you can't mistake any flowering ornithogalum for an allium and vice versa - even Ornithogalum umbellatum

has no umbel but a very short-squashed spike. But that argument is like hoping people on Inat would finally understand that anything with six anthers can never be a crocus.

There are a few other plants in Allioideae which smell of garlic, too - Tulbaghia and Ipheion would come in mind here.

Easy. Gladiolus uysiae

Flower Colors:	brown, patterned
Climate:	winter rain climate

- and I adore green/brown flowers.

As donations are a bit slow this year, I'll tease with another two EX items: Lachenalia "Aqua Lady" (EX04_040 from @AngelikaN ) and Trimezia species (EX04_60) from Uli.

Meanwhile in the garden, the plants slowly get higher: Iris aucheri Olof in front of Fritillaria sewerzowii

(which in turn is planted too close to Scilla peruviana). Sidenote to myself: Have to improve the code on the link-plugin for subpages that do not contain the genus name (here: Juno vs. Iris)

Ornithogalums don't have umbels like that. Amaryllidaceae have. Best guess from my side's an Allium - which you can probably verify with your nose.

Oh, and since that's your first post: welcome to the forum!

David is right. Trimezia steyermarkii

I can see such a trade being set up, maybe as a subforum of the exchange area - or maybe two subforums, as in one for offers and one for requests. That said, we will not allow any public discussion of circumventing legal regulations on the forum. _{Of course, personal messages can not be scanned by the team.}

I'll try to trust in everyone's judgement to only use that for situations where portions are too small for the official exchanges or the timing is off - Obviously as EU exchange coordinator I'm not interested in reducing the attractiveness of it

 Beautiful Sparaxis - love how robust it looks!

Meanwhile spring is marching on for me - let's start with two EX-Items, as we have opened the donation phase this weekend. First is EX07_052, Oxalis "PomPom" from Liga Plata. Second one is EX07_176, Chasmanthe aethiopica

from Marian Vanneste. A small spike, but I had tried Chasmanthe before and never had it flowering at all, so maybe it's my unusually warm winter, or it is just because of the huge bulbs Marian donates.

Not from EX, but also potted is Xenoscapa fistulosa

, another one from the "cute and tiny" faction. Out in the garden is a very early form of Corydalis solida

, Hyacinthella lazulina

and, last but not least the gray form of Iris tuberosa in flower.

Quote from: Carlos on February 23, 2024, 04:51:47 AMWhere is your plant from?

My Asphodelus acaulis

is from Bert Zaalberg, the Corybas was from Paul Christian. Strange that he removed it from his product archive, as I can still see the offer in Wayback Machine...

Well, its cousin Freesia laxa

tends to seed around aggressively in pots, chances are viridis does the same under good conditions.

Maculatum actually has no spots at all in vast areas of origin - at least here in southern Germany.

The point of survival of -20°C should likely minimize the possibilities: maculatum and cylindraceum definitely, italicum, besserianum and orientale maybe, judged by distribution data from potWo

That's Freesia viridis

subspecies viridis, one of the anomatheca-part of the genus

Hi all, let's start today with where we actually are in this crazy spring in Germany - OK, the kaufmannianas are very early tulips, but I've never seen them in flower at the beginning of 3rd decade of February. Next one shows Crocus heuffelianus

and Colchicum szovitsii

side by side. Colchicum luteum

would flower as well but has been attacked by slugs.

Meanwhile, Asphodelus acaulis

has opened up on the front door stairs, always ready to be protected - but we actually had frost ONCE in February, and even thought Temperatures are announced to drop, it may still stay frost free for several days ahead.

Last two show a "long term project" - I actually bought Corybas incurvus before Brexit in fall 2019, and now almost lost that very first flower to a slug - in the greenhouse! Anyway, I really think this tops the Pterostylis with which it shares growing conditions both in tininess and bizarrity, close to a miniature Nintendo Piranha plant. By the way that's not Orchid Seramis, that's the normal thing...