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Well, in Spain yes. I guess that we are becoming civilized or at least organized or just obbeying EU regulations on natural areas and threatened species (as UK did before Brexit, I don't know about the regulations in force now).

Any national or natural park has its own regulations, with allowed and forbidden activities. In some you can collect aromatic plants, camp, hike or even hunt, but in most of them collecting any plant is forbidden unless you have a permit for scientific studies. Outside protected areas, collecting is free on public land and you need a permit only for protected species, and/or on private land.

Regarding UK, I happen to need seeds of Prospero autumnalis, and I discovered that under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981, 'it is unlawful to uproot any wild plant without permission from the landowner or occupier'. ANY wild plant, from a poppy to a rare Armeria, if I get it right. And I guess that land owned by the State, or the Crown, or municipalities, has a "landowner" and is possibly "occupied".

This might seem out of date, old-fashioned, or what you like, but to my knowledge, is in force.

Schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which is revised every five years provides a list of endangered plants.

So, well, freedom might not always be what we think.

I rather meant collecting permits. No one will issue a phyto in Peru, at least not easily, even if I have the support of a University. No one will easily issue a collecting permit either, I'm afraid. That's how poaching is encouraged.

Carlos

Yes!! I sensed this was new. Oscar has not told me about publushing it, in fact it was me who told him yesterday about doing so, and we might have an opportunity to get some bulbs to study. I am trying to know which permits are needed.

Ok, no  I didn't, sorry.

Yes, I think so as well.

Why stolen? It's the guy's own Facebook, 'Viveroscar'... He posted some other photos where he says it could be a form of C. humilis...  But humilis is always orange-red and grows in the high Andes, this plant seems to have been found in montane meadows at a lower elevation (Huancavelica, according to one of his posts).

Hi, some already know that I have started a quest to get some South American Amaryllidaceae (also South African).

A person in Peru tells me he has "Clinanthus bicolor" available, but I can't find any information on this name.

The plant seems quite distinct, though, does anyone know what it is?



Thanks

Carlos

Hi, wonderful!

I am trying to get some people in contact to swap pollen of Paramongaia, it would be for next season as yours is the last flower among adult plants I know of. But you would receive much fresher pollen...

Ever tried to ask for cuttings of Strongylodon?

Carlos

Wonderful Boophone, Gethyllis, Lachenalia, and Hippeastrum!

Does that anzaldoi set seed?

Carlos

Hi, I was sent this photo by an Argentinian grower, Yolanda Bárbaro. She told me it grows during the summer.

Allium circinnatum, from Crete, Greece

Hi, it is a mountain plant (for me, "mountain" or "continental climate" means anything in zone 8 or less), so yes it needs to be stratified or a cold period outside. The winter in Virginia should be more than enough.  But if you have hot summers, expect the seedlings to die soon, unless it cools down in the night to 15 degrees or less. At least, that's what happens in the Pyrenees, where I have seen it wild. And water freely when they develop the first 2-3 true leaves.

A bit of folk-lore: the Basques call it Eguzki Lore, or Sun Flower. It was and still is hanged at the top of dwelling's doors because it was thought that if the devil or a witch passed by at night, he/she would be compelled to count the "rays" or ligules , and daylight would catch them still doing so, preventing them to do any harm. I know it's a superstition, but it is one which has survived from Pre-catholic times, so I thinks it's great. The Basque country is still a region full of misteries, and the Basques have been always reluctant to quit their traditions and beliefs. 

Carlos

Asphodelus acaulis. Bought as an adult rhizome. I would exchange pollen, as it is self sterile...



I hoped to catch it with a full ring of flowers in a Mammillaria style, but no luck so far... Amazing plant anyway.

Carlos

According to Plants of the World online, Merendera candidissima = Colchicum trigynum.

But D. Zubov thinks that they are different species, at least because trigynum has yellow anthers and candidissimum has dark bluish grey ones. He transferred it to Colchicum as C candidissimum (Miscz. ex Grossh.) Zubov here:

April - International Rock Gardener https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2021Apr291619719761IRG_136.pdf

Carlos

Hi, this is just amazing.

Carlos

Well, the first person to be contacted said 'no way'. But I don't give up easily.

Carlos