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Hello all, I'm new to the bulb game but excited to learn more and try some different plants. My first bulb is Geissorhiza corrugata. It's been difficult to find information for proper care but so far it's doing well in its first year.

I purchased bulbs and they came up 2nd month of winter here. Now it's early summer and they seem to be still growing. I'm hoping to see them die back and go dormant before long, some of the leaves are turning brown so maybe so. If anyone has any suggestions on growing medium for them I'd love to hear.

I've also been growing Dioscorea elephantipes from seed. And got a Stephania erecta caudex. Not sure if these qualify as bulbs but I'm loving them! I'm excited to try some other geissorhiza and other bulbing plants. Cheers!

Quote from: Itjustismkay on June 18, 2023, 07:46:43 AMMy first bulb is Geissorhiza corrugata.

Hi, welcome to the forum.

Geissorhiza corrugata is on the PBS wiki - interesting looking plant.

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/GeissorhizaSpeciesOne#corrugata


Dioscorea elephantipes is there too, so we must think it is a bulb.

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Dioscorea

Stephania erecta caudex is not on the wiki, but it appears to be a bulb - "Stephania Erecta plant has a large potato-shaped woody bulb called a caudex" - maybe we should add it.

Quote from: David Pilling on June 19, 2023, 03:27:28 AM

Quote from: Itjustismkay on June 18, 2023, 07:46:43 AMMy first bulb is Geissorhiza corrugata.

Hi, welcome to the forum.

Geissorhiza corrugata is on the PBS wiki - interesting looking plant.

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/GeissorhizaSpeciesOne#corrugata


Dioscorea elephantipes is there too, so we must think it is a bulb.

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Dioscorea

Stephania erecta caudex is not on the wiki, but it appears to be a bulb - "Stephania Erecta plant has a large potato-shaped woody bulb called a caudex" - maybe we should add it.

Great! Thank you for the resources. Very helpful. I've also gotten seeds for other caudex plants, a couple diff varieties of Stephania and Dioscorea. I'm excited to learn more here and branch off into some other plant species.

Well Stephania erecta is a synonym of Stephania pierrei says KEW https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:581421-1

Besides a few plants that naturally grow with a partly overground caudex, there has been an ongoing fever for this form of growth, so now almost everything that can tolerate having underground storage exposed will be sold as "caudex plant", some of them better fit our geophyte definition than the caudex definition.

btw if you mention a plant in your text, you can use the little bulb symbol to add code to the name automatically linking the Wiki, like your two plants of Geissorhiza corrugata

and Dioscorea elephantipes

- the code tries to get as close as possible, e.g. if a specific species of a genus does not exist in the wiki, the genus page will be linked - in the case of Stephania pierrei it will  for now only set the binominal in italics, but it will become a link as soon as the page is created.

Oh, and welcome, of course!