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Another exciting first flowering of some of my most recent bounty from our last BX. Again I'd like to say a Big Thank you to those generous folks that spread the bulb Love! 

Moraea Aristata

 

 

Quote from: Arnold on March 14, 2024, 07:08:51 PMI think mine may be a bit of a hybrid.  It seeds all over the greenhouse bench and I have 4-5 pots with it growing.

Mine is also quite productive spreading it's likeness around my garden. Now I try to pull all the seed pods off before they have a chance to ripen and open.

Quote from: Robin Jangle on March 13, 2024, 01:05:46 AMI'm going with Geissorhiza heterostyla

Thank you, Robin! Impressive, I didn't even deduce it was the Geissorhiza genus. I eventually found out from the gifter of the bulbs, it is G. Inaequalis. 
https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/GeissorhizaSpeciesTwo#inaequalis

Quote from: petershaw on March 11, 2024, 02:51:14 PM

LOVE IT!!

Quote from: Arnold on March 03, 2024, 02:39:31 PMGladiolus tristis

Hi Arnold. It's interesting how different my G. Tristis looks compared to yours...

Quote from: Martin Bohnet on March 11, 2024, 12:33:38 AMAs 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.

DANG!...wish I could get in on the EU seed EX for that Lachenalia Aqua Lady!!

Sparaxis Tri Color pink / white. I enjoy them a lot amongst my many S. Tri-color sp. flower colors.
Seed collected specifically from this plant and a couple other very similar looking flower plants should be in the upcoming SX offering. Now be warned, I have a lot of Sparaxis, including non Tri-color sp., so it's entirely possible there could be some crosses in that seed. But they should make for fantastic late winter early spring flowers no matter the purity outcome!

Another really nice Sparaxis (imho), S. Elegans starting its show.

I was Generously gifted some mystery bulbs from a long time aficionados garden. Many of them have been leafing out for a bit now, and the first flowers are appearing. Some I feel I can speculate on the genus based on the foliage, but far more I have no clue about.
Here are some flowers I do not recognize...
Appreciate any help!

Sparaxis Tri-color waking up...



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Quote from: Carlos on March 08, 2024, 11:58:26 AMHere goes another one with a tricky nomenclature, a favourite of mine. Sorry, long post.

Today's plant was placed peacefully in Scilla for almost two centuries (from 1800 to 1998).

Rafinesque, for me one of the greatest 'unfairly underrated splitters who were right', disgregated Scilla in many small to rather big genera, often because if presence / absence of bracts and/or bracteoles. He created
Tractema in 1837. It has bracts, but no bracteoles. But the plant remained in Scilla either as a species or lumped in S. verna until Austrian prof. Speta, another underrated visionary, resuscitated Rafinesque's genera in 1998.

Ok, but Tractema verna is an Euro-Siberian plant, and the plant shown here occurs in the Mediterranean climate,  in coastal areas on the Atlantic shore on sandy soils, often in Pinus pinea clear forests, with Romulea clusiana and gaditana, etc. It has perfumed flowers and was first called Scilla odorata, type locality the Algarve, at  Lagos  and Cape Sao Vicente, with Narcissus obesus and Hyacinthoides vicentina (mauretanica?), Portugal. This plant of mine was accidentally collected in Chiclana, Cádiz, Spain by a friend  when looking for Squilla (Urginea/Drimia).



The second plant was first called Scilla ramburei, which is wrong as it honours Rambur, so it should be ramburii. It grows inland on 'normal soils' up to 800 m and probably more. Type locality: Antequera, Málaga province.

Problems: they were both lumped under Scilla verna as subspecies, and in Flora Iberica they have been swapped, so 'ramburii' is applied to the coastal plant on sandy soils, and 'odorata' for the inland plant. But I looked the original descriptions and types up and there is no doubt. Portugal 1, Spain 0, this time. I was told by a Portuguese biologist.

Carlos

Beautiful!

More common garden bulbs...Freesia something ?





 

Quote from: Lee Poulsen on March 07, 2024, 05:18:03 PMYou're probably not still down there, but there is a native bulb, Behria tenuiflora

, that grows all over the place around the Cabo area from sea level up into the mountains. They probably don't plant them at the resorts, but I've heard from several people who've driven around there that they're not rare and have often found seeds of it on plants by the sides of the highways. Here's a map of some places where it has been found.

Bummer I didn't post this sooner! I might have had a chance to look for these near our resort as we weren't far from the road, and also had wild-ish native plant areas near the resort.

Saw these at our Zoetry resort property grounds. They appear to be some sort of bulb (imho), Crinum looking-ish plants. There were two different looking versions. One all green, a bit more robust, with nicer flowers. The other which there were more of have some green but are more purple-ish with fading from strong purple to weak and muddy color, and the flowers not as nice as the green specimens. Flowers were sweetly scented!
Any thoughts, solid ID's, or guesses?

Saw this at the Zoetry in Cabo Mx this past weekend...any thoughts, solid ID's, or guesses?